What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to ...

Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here ...

Public Housing: Tenants and Troubles Mike Miller and Carl Werthman Summer 1961 By June 30, 1960, the New York City Housing Authority had become the country’s largest landlord, housing some 567,000 ...

Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.

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 new ...

For conservatives around the world, Israel’s democratic deficit is a feature, not a bug—an alternative constitutional model that defies liberal universalism.

Max Fraser: Films about African-American characters and communities—especially those that take place in the present rather than the historical past—rarely seem to adopt a rural framing. Why was that ...

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 ...

The ideals of the Confederate South found new force in the bloody plains of the American West.

Ross Perlin is co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance. His latest book is Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s ...