How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back. This is not because her argument—that Democrats need to show ...

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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 ...

Progressives will only make lasting progress with Latino voters if they examine not just why Trump was appealing, but also why the left was not.

Penguin Press, 2025, 768 pp. In a series of lectures on the philosophy of history delivered in the 1820s, around the time Spain’s colonies in the Western Hemisphere were declaring independence, Georg ...

This article was published in partnership with The Intercept. Rita Murad, a twenty-one-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel and student at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, was arrested ...

As a species, we produce gardeners, devoted caretakers, and also arsonists.

The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking. Just ...

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In his first Editor’s Page for Dissent in 2009, Michael Kazin commented on the disappointment many felt after the election of Barack Obama. “His 2008 campaign, remarkable as it was, did not revive the ...

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