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

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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 ...

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad Spring 2025 Syrians search through scattered documents in Sednaya prison for information about people who were disappeared during the Assad era. (Lynsey Addario/Getty Images) In ...

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Despite all this, Tolkien has many left-wing fans. They can point to his celebration of working-class heroes like Sam Gamgee over the more well-heeled and gentlemanly Frodo, his call for an ethics of ...

Ned Resnikoff, Brian Callaci and Sandeep Vaheesan Winter 2025 Construction at a multifamily housing development in Los Angeles (Mario Tama/Getty Images) After decades of relative stagnation, American ...

Patrick Iber is co-editor of Dissent. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a research professor at UNC-Chapel Hill’s iSchool, a MacArthur Fellow, and a New York Times contributing opinion writer. She is a ...

Just as in 2016, Harris supporters have fallen back on the racism and sexism of American society as an explanation for defeat. No doubt these are hulking obstacles, but they don’t suffice as omnibus ...

Sarah Jaffe Fall 2024 Wages for Housework poster made by Betsy Warrior (Library of Congress) Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care by M.E. O’Brien Pluto Press, 2023, 304 pp.

“No poet is free of particularity, nor would any poet wish to be,” Schwartz wrote in a 1941 essay about Yeats titled “An Unwritten Book.” What follows Schwartz, from his first lyrics through the ...

J.W. Mason Fall 2024 Joe Biden at an Intel manufacturing facility in Chandler, Arizona that received funding from the CHIPS Act (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images) In the first two years after Biden’s ...