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

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.

To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient details in favor of a morality play.

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.

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 ...

China's younger generation of feminists pose a unique threat to the Communist Party. By celebrating single, queer, and often child-free women, they are challenging government edicts that marriage and ...

Black inhabitants of the South did not respond uniformly to the rules and folkways of Jim Crow, nor do they see its demise in quite the same way. Two recent books use the authority of testimony to ...

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

Planetary ecosystems are presently in a dire state. For decades, capitalism has proposed to hold the solutions: in new forms of property rights, new kinds of markets, new representations of concrete ...