The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left ...
Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here. You can subscribe to, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts and ...
Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.
Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
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Fall 2025

Only public investment will deliver a media that can serve the news needs of our time.
Today, inequality—especially racial inequality—is not only produced through the job market but through people’s ability to ...
Trump’s wall is a “monument to the final closing of the frontier.” He has abandoned the political language of boundless ...
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.
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Spring 2024

Read highlights on privatized care from the Dissent archives.