To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient ...

Matt and Sam discuss Christopher Caldwell's The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, a broadside against the 1964 ...

W. W. Norton & Company, 2017, 368 pp. The United States today is less a nation of citizens equal under the law than a nation of citizens living in unequal zip codes. Where we live is both a cause and ...

Editors ▪ June 12, 2025 Join Dissent at Book Culture on Thursday, July 10 at 7 p.m. for a discussion about Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today, a ...

Chris Hayes’s A Colony in a Nation seeks to elevate the Movement for Black Lives by placing it on a par with the American Revolution, but his analysis carries troubling implications. Sam Klug ▪ ...

Basic Books, 2020, 528 pp. The Clint Eastwood Western The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), a genre-defining fantasy of anti-government violence, finds redemption for the failed ideas of the white South in ...

What three seminal books by black intellectuals, all published in 1967, can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era. Robert Greene ▪ November 10, 2017 Harold Cruse, Stokely Carmichael, ...

When the pandemic struck last year and classes went virtual, students scrambled to adjust. A twenty-two-year-old Filipina-American psychology major at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) from a ...

The task of this moment is to build a broad front that can resist authoritarianism. The recent protests are early skirmishes in the fight that will be needed. Manuel Pastor ▪ June 13, 2025 ...

Ahead of this month’s parliamentary elections, the French left has reemerged as the primary opposition to the president. Harrison Stetler ▪ June 10, 2022 Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the inaugural ...

Editors ▪ June 4, 2025 As major climate disasters increase in frequency across the country, homeowners and renters are faced with new dilemmas about how to protect themselves and their ...