Dissent is a magazine of politics and ideas published in print three times a year. Founded by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser in 1954, it quickly established itself as one of America’s leading ...

The chances for durable peace may depend on Trump’s whims.

With every extreme weather event, housing is damaged and belongings are lost. Insurance is supposed to be the safety net that helps people to recover and restart their lives. But as major disasters ...

Matt and Sam talk to historian Erik Baker about his new book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted ...

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Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it. Zoë Hu ▪ ...

The Measure ULA campaign shows how a housing-labor coalition can transform the political landscape, even in the face of staunch special interest reaction. Peter Dreier ▪ Winter 2025 Mansions in ...

After decades of relative stagnation, American housing policy is now several years into a period of radical change and experimentation. In California, where I am policy director for the state-level ...

The New Press, 2024, 400 pp. Last fall, the waters rose in Appalachia and did not stop until many were dead and many more were homeless. As the remnants of Hurricane Helene tore through the region, I ...

W.W. Norton, 2024, 176 pp. Over the past eight years, a series of major document leaks has shone a spotlight on tax havens and their users. The Panama Papers, made up of 11.5 million documents from ...