Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here ...
Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.
Today, inequality—especially racial inequality—is not only produced through the job market but through people’s ability to ...
Trump’s election has made Lana Del Rey rethink her patriotism, without losing sight of a resilient, youthful Americana—and ...
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Red London

Owen Hatherley’s eye-opening account of the left in power in London suggests both the possibilities and limits for municipal socialism.
Read highlights on malignant normality from the Dissent archives.
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Fall 2025

Read highlights on internet privacy from the Dissent archives.
The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left ...
Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
Working on Dissent has been both a great pleasure and a ceaseless responsibility. It is time to let others have all the fun ...
Activists in L.A. are connecting homelessness to the issues of over-policing, gentrification, and the fight for affordable ...
Le Guin’s work is distinctive not only because it is imaginative, or because it is political, but because she thought so ...