The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit.
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The special section of Dissent’s Fall issue, The Right to a Home, is edited by historian Thomas Sugrue, author of Origins of the Urban Crisis, and by Dissent senior editor Colin Kinniburgh.
An event with the German Left Party’s parliamentary co-leader.
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As a species, we produce gardeners, devoted caretakers, and also arsonists.
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Mr In-Between

Working on Dissent has been both a great pleasure and a ceaseless responsibility. It is time to let others have all the fun and carry most of the burden.
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Fall 2025

Read highlights on Michelangelo from the Dissent archives.
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New Haven Rising

As “eds and meds” reshape working-class New Haven, labor and community groups are joining forces to transform the service economy and build a more democratic city.
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Spring 2024

Read highlights on Michael Tesler from the Dissent archives.
Penguin Press, 2025, 768 pp. In a series of lectures on the philosophy of history delivered in the 1820s, around the time Spain’s colonies in the Western Hemisphere were declaring independence, Georg ...
This article was published in partnership with The Intercept. Rita Murad, a twenty-one-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel and student at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, was arrested ...