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

Random House 343 pp. $5.95. Truman Capote’s meticulous story of a quadruple murder on the Kansas plain, its instant success, and some of the critical reactions to it raise a number of ...

Wars of position that pit race against class are tired.

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

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An event with the German Left Party’s parliamentary co-leader.

Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here. You can subscribe to, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts and ...

Democratic ideals set high standards that no polity really meets. But that does not make democracy meaningless. A society may fail to make good on its values, even as those values shape its collective ...

Join Dissent at Field Projects for the opening night of Gospel of the Working Class, a new exhibition by Tabitha Arnold, Dissent’s cover artist. Gospel of the Working Class illuminates a hundred years ...

An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport’s growing popularity into a better deal for players?

Our documentary No Other Land won an Oscar, but the conditions it depicts are only getting worse. Basel Adra ▪ March 6, 2025 Israeli army forces demolish Palestinian homes and property in ...

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 ...