Read highlights on privatized care from the Dissent archives.

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

Matt and Sam are joined by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes to discuss his new book The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource. We’re all anxious, and none of us can pay attention.

Destructive displays of technological prowess in Lebanon serve to distract the Israeli public from the military’s failure to achieve its long-stated war aims. Yet Israel will not bring about regional ...

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ Spring 2024 Art by Tabitha Arnold While we are paying a lot of attention to U.S. conservatives this election year, it is also an auspicious time to publish a ...

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 ...

In the annual mailbag episode, Matt and Sam answer listener questions about topics ranging from the influence of post-liberal intellectuals on the right to their favorite Willie Nelson albums. Once a ...

This new monthly column, Apocalypse Chow, is about radically rethinking our understanding of food. While we can’t live without food and drink, cuisine is not merely a physical product. It is foremost ...

Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union in the United Kingdom, talks about the prospects for a truly feminist labor movement. Some of the most exciting social justice and labor ...

Eve Livingston’s new book, Make Bosses Pay, aims to get young people connected to unions and to push unions to engage more with the working class as it is today: diverse, precarious, and perhaps on ...

Healthcare and education have been at the center of pandemic labor struggles. Two rank-and-file leaders from these fields join the podcast for a live episode. Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ ...

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn race-based affirmative action. But preferences based on socioeconomic disadvantage—which are both politically popular and legally sound—could produce similarly ...