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Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.

Jon Henry’s photography offers the hope that remembrance can spark political change.

Trump’s wall is a “monument to the final closing of the frontier.” He has abandoned the political language of boundless ...

Owen Hatherley’s eye-opening account of the left in power in London suggests both the possibilities and limits for municipal socialism.

Read highlights on privatized care from the Dissent archives.

In the era of global capitalism, imagining the lives of others is a crucial form of solidarity. Brian Morton ▪ Fall 2020 Novelist Ralph Ellison poses for a portrait in Harlem in 1966. (David ...

What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani’s socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to get there. J.W. Mason ▪ July 4, 2025 Zohran Mamdani holds a rally on ...

Contemporary automation discourse responds to a real, global trend: there are too few jobs for too many people. But it ignores the actual sources of this trend: deindustrialization, depressed ...

Walking on Manhattan’s Upper West Side one chilly day in the 1980s—it was not long after a suggestion came from within the Reagan administration that ketchup replace vegetables in school lunches to ...