New Future

Our empathy seems to make us righteous—even as we benefit from an unequal world.

In China, academic competition has become a kind of faith, providing values and a sense of purpose to its acolytes.

Trump’s goal is blood-and-soil nationalism. The only choice is opposition.

Trump's National Garden of American Heroes will be a monument to randomness and a lazy, perhaps unthinking, version of the ideology he is supposed to despise.

The U. S. government is activating a suite of algorithmic surveillance tools, developed in concert with major tech companies, to monitor and criminalize immigrants’ speech.

An interview with Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.

The Lord of the Rings is a book obsessed with ruins, bloodlines, and the divine right of aristocrats. Why are so many on the left able to love it?

The government funds institutions that stretch across American society. The Trump administration is demanding the relinquishment of constitutional rights to keep the money flowing.

The super-rich opt out of the social contract by picking and choosing which laws apply to them, whether in offshore tax havens or at home.

By intimidating and disarming potential sources of legal resistance, Trump weakens one of the last institutional barriers standing between his administration and unbridled executive power.

Trump has destroyed a federal system of labor relations that helped contain conflict for decades. The move could have unintended consequences.

Join Dissent on April 8 for a special fundraiser in New York City.

Tenant organizers demand that housing be more than just a bare roof over your head, and in doing so they make space for a full life.

“Organizing tenants has the potential to shape the political landscape for decades to come. ”