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All in the Family

by Melinda Cooper,

From “Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection,” which was published in the Winter 2022 issue of Dissent. Progressives have struggled to comprehend the foundations of the far right’s continuing…

Kids Say the Darndest Things

Translated by Natascha Hoffmeyer,

From a conversation between Olaf Scholz and two eleven-year-olds, Pauline and Romeo, who were interviewing candidates for chancellor of Germany. The exchange aired in September on Late Night Berlin. Scholz…

Think Stank

From statements included in How to Debate Your Teacher (and WIN!), a booklet first published in 2015 by the conservative policy group Turning Points USA. Capitalism is under attackTeachers and…

Among Britain’s Anti-Semites

by Tanya Gold,

The Labour Party’s Moral Dilemma

Workingmen’s Machine

by Richard Halworth Rovere,

Within the next few years, the Congress of Industrial Organizations Political Action Committee may become the most powerful vote-herding and lobbying organization in the country. It now has prestige, cohesive…

Political Football

by Kevin Baker,

With the fall and another election season upon us, the one thing we can count on is a renewal of Donald Trump’s war on football. This has become an annual…

Unmusical Chairs

by Rebecca Solnit,

It’s often forgotten that the idea of the political spectrum—of politics having a left and right—has a physical origin. It comes from the seating arrangements at the National Assembly of…

The Minds of Others

by David Bromwich, Garth Greenwell, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kelly Clancy, Laila Lalami, Mychal Denzel Smith, T. M. Luhrmann,

The art of persuasion in the age of Trump

The Trial

by Maria Alyokhina,

By Maria Alyokhina, from Riot Days, a memoir. Alyokhina is a member of the music group and art collective Pussy Riot, along with Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. In February…

Star Search

by Lisa Rab,

The race to rebuild the Democratic Party

San Francisco

by Anna Wiener,

Since Inauguration Day, across Silicon Valley I’ve been hearing software engineers who earn six figures talk about solidarity, collective action, and the rise of labor against capital. In July, word…

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