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 ...

From the late nineteenth century to our post-9/11 era, Americans have imagined South Asians simultaneously as exotic and barbaric, magical and menacing—to the detriment of those immigrants who are ...

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 ...

In their new book, Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce argue that progressives need a strategy upgrade. As they explain, “We wrote this book ...

What did you eat today? Perhaps it was an egg-and-cheese sandwich, followed by pizza, then ramen for dinner. Or maybe you had a breakfast burrito, grabbed to-go sushi for lunch, and noshed on a burger ...

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 ...

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 ▪ ...