Impossible series, Digger delights in its own theatricality. But the film takes so much pleasure in autocritique it borders ...

We are thrilled to announce four new editorial board members at Dissent: Sam-Adler-Bell, Aslı Bâli, Veena Dubal, and Joseph A. McCartin.

The following was originally published in Unpopular Front.

For the first time since the Second World War, the far right will form a government in Germany. But the rot in Saxony-Anhalt ...

Discussion in the United States about secular stagnation, a long-term tendency toward weak business investment and slow growth, has mostly focused on wealthy countries. But slowing growth around the ...

Fifty years ago, a protest against the Miss America pageant kicked off a new phase of the women’s liberation movement. We present a narrative history of that landmark protest, as told by the ...

Consider the question of whether or not we can correctly say that a human fetus is a human being. I am inclined to believe that a negative answer is correct. Others disagree. They maintain that the ...

The old Nixon and the new Nixon are one and the same man: the president of the United States. That is at least one secret of Nixonism. For, alas, it is now necessary to name an ism after a man whose ...

In an era of retrenchment in social policy, food assistance is becoming more generous and inclusive. But Republican politicians are attempting to gut one of the most popular programs: free school ...

Media cooperatives have flourished in the last decade. But they can’t face the structural crisis of journalism alone.

Flávio Bolsonaro came out ahead of Lula in the first round of Brazil's presidential elections. It's the latest sign of a surging far right across the continent.