The war with Iran will not produce a freer or more democratic country.

An interview with Kathi Weeks. With her 2011 book The Problem with Work, political theorist Kathi Weeks helped kickstart a ...

The war with Iran will not producer a freer or more democratic country. On February 28, 2026, while announcing a joint ...

The real scandal of the Epstein saga is not that a billionaire cabal runs the world. It’s that there is a billionaire class.

Read highlights on non-aligned movement from the Dissent archives.

Matt and Sam talk to Bill Kristol about his journey from neoconservative thought leader to anti-Trump liberal.

Stephen Kinzer is one of the few mainstream voices reminding Americans of our imperial identity. In The True Flag, he takes us back to where he thinks it all began—1898, when the U.S. political class ...

The “middle powers” can band together to chart a third way between authoritarian superpowers in Washington and Beijing. Nils Gilman ▪ March 27, 2026 Mark Carney at the 2026 World Economic Forum ...

The American Dream enjoins limitless social mobility. Class barriers don’t exist for it, or if they do they are so fluid as to be virtually without meaning. “From each according to his abilities … ” ...

Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. The answers were ...