In California, new legislation would expand the rules of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to cover all workers—if domestic workers and their allies have their way. Eileen Boris ▪ April 16 ...

Five poems by the late American writer and activist Grace Paley.

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I met Todd half a century ago on a perfect afternoon in Berkeley. He soon became the political big brother I never had. When Todd wrote about what was wrong in our country and what the left should do ...

To insist that a movement remake itself in one’s image is not a plea for solidarity; it is a demand for obedience. Jeffrey C. Isaac, the author of a recent article in this tradition, is no stranger to ...

Booked is a series of interviews about new books. In this edition, William P. Jones talks to Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, the author of Reconsidering Reparations (Oxford University Press). The idea of paying ...

The election of Gabriel Boric and the ongoing process to write a new constitution present a historic opportunity for the left to shape a new social pact in Chile. Marcelo Casals ▪ December 22, ...

Booked is a series of interviews about new books. For this edition, Dissent senior editor Nick Serpe talks to Ben Tarnoff, the author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future ...

Recent news reports have revealed that child labor is not just a historical relic in the United States—and some politicians want to undermine existing regulations, claiming that less oversight is good ...

In The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope. The 2008 financial meltdown and the global economic crisis that followed put ...

When Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected president of Mexico in 2018, he promised a government “for the good of all, with the poor coming first.” He pledged to break with neoliberalism and its ...

History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past legislative record, is not necessarily what you get from a president once in power. Bob Master ▪ October ...