I always appreciate when someone breaks down the practical aspects of policy #ResistanceSyllabus dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

"In New York City, the way we take care of kids is less a system than a patchwork of very expensive solutions glued together with Band-Aids, popsicle sticks, and prayers." Read Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on Zohran's child-care promise: dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Om tre (fyra) olika synsätt som konkurrerar nu inom amerikanska Demokraterna: popularist, deliverist o partyists (+ Momdanis o socialisternas partyism without a party, en rörelsebaserad strategi för val). Så tydligt V o S helt valt popularist: opinionsföljande. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Wang Bing’s Youth is an epic work of people’s history writ small. dissentmagazine.org/article/sola...

On Know Your Enemy, Matt and Sam are joined by Know Your Enemy’s intrepid producer, Jesse Brenneman, to discuss the recent film One Battle After Another. dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

Really smart piece from @cgmaisano.bsky.social getting beyond the popularism debates to argue that what Mamdani's victory shows the rest of the country isn't necessarily about ideology, but it is about organization dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

K. Sabeel Rahman joins @majorityreport.bsky.social to talk about why we need a Third Reconstruction.

“Rolling back MAGA will require speaking to popular needs and aspirations and delivering on them. It will also require developing our capacities to work together in a spirit of democratic cooperation and public exuberance.” dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Check out the latest episode of the Know Your Enemy podcast where @lkatfield.bsky.social discusses her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right:

Rebuilding government decision-making power requires not just removing veto points, but also addressing the outsized corporate power that gives the wealthy the best access to policymakers. Read @suzmkahn.bsky.social in our fall issue: dissentmagazine.org/article/publ...

good to see "partyism" taken up (and if anyone can come up with better branding for the tendency, they have my blessing fwiw)

This is a good read.

"Why fill in the hollow parties when you can do much the same thing outside of them?" Not quite sure I buy everything here, but a smart, meaty analysis of Mamdani campaign's civic roots and possibilities. And, I might add, exactly what an author wants to see with a book out in the world.

Smart analysis.

Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam talk with @lkatfield.bsky.social about her new book. dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

In @dissentmag.bsky.social, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social makes the case for a third reconstruction.

The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Another great ep

Tonight!

The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights. Read @cgmaisano.bsky.social in our Fall issue: dissentmagazine.org/article/coal...

New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam talk with @peterbeinart.bsky.social dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

Consistently the best political podcast I listen to, this. So good, and this one in particular so terrifying

"Both views ignore what may be Mamdani’s most important contribution in the current moment: he has resurrected a universalist, redistributive, civic-egalitarian politics that had practically vanished from the national and international scene." www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

A sobering and hopeful analysis from Nikhil Pal Singh: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

"Inept opposition." Implications here for Dem leadership, absolutely.

Hurra! @heidireichinnek.dielinkebt.de kommt nach New York. 🗽

Next Thursday, join us for a conversation with @die-linke.de's Heidi Reichinnek, Ross Barkan, and @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social on left-wing politics in Germany and the United States. Register here: www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/event-n...

Jobby job.

“Mamdani shows how new constituencies are born from taking political risks and made through probing investigation and performative interaction.“

> Mamdani shows how new constituencies are born from taking political risks and made through probing investigation and performative interaction. Bingo!

New online: Nikhil Pal Singh on Zohran Mamdani. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam are very worried. www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

As long as Elon Musk is making us talk about Tolkien again here is @gerrycanavan.bsky.social's sharp piece about the challenges and joys of reading and enjoying Tolkien from the left www.dissentmagazine.org/article/tolk...

Strong argument by the legal and political historian Aziz Rana for the analytical fruitfulness of the term 'settler colonialism' across a very diverse range of contexts:

@maxgranger.info interviews the Salvadoran journalist Julia Gavarette about the state of the country and Bukele's methods of control www.newglobalpolitics.org/el-salvador/

A recording of our event with @chiosse.bsky.social, @ceaweaver.bsky.social, and @jwmason.bsky.social about how Zohran Mamdani can deliver on his agenda as mayor is online now. Watch here: www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/recordi...

Dissent is hiring! We're seeking a full-time Senior Editor to work with us in our New York office. Details here: www.dissentmagazine.org/about-dissen...

Dissent is looking for a Senior Editor - please let me know if you have any questions about this position www.dissentmagazine.org/about-dissen...

From working-class unionist to three-term president, Lula da Silva’s journey reflects Brazil’s uneasy balance between procedural democracy and deep inequality. Our essay of the week traces the rise of Lula's pragmatic leftism. By @apagliar.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social buff.ly/ntqhJAr

Turkey’s slide into authoritarianism was facilitated by collaborators, enablers, and an inept opposition www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Excellent essay in Dissent (@dissentmag.bsky.social) by USC sociologist Manuel Pastor (@profmpastor.bsky.social) on why the Democrats and the left have been losing ground with Latino voters. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/por-...

Here's a relevant piece on these themes that I wrote in 2017 for @dissentmag.bsky.social. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Progressives will only make lasting progress with Latino voters if they examine not just why Trump was appealing, but also why the left was not. @profmpastor.bsky.social on the Latino red wave: www.dissentmagazine.org/article/por-...

For the horror of yesterday's ICE raid on Canal Street, "counterfeit" apparel is worse than a lame excuse. Knock-offs of branded clothing increase economic welfare & should be perfectly legal. My short blog post some time back in @dissentmag.bsky.social: www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/a-modes...

"At turns banal, well-meaning, and thoroughly off-putting, Outclassed is a monument to the very elitism it seeks to challenge." In our latest issue, Sean T. Byrnes reviews Outclassed by Joan C. Williams. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/talk...

Great @dissentmag.bsky.social piece! www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010. www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

Now unpaywalled: @apagliar.bsky.social on Lula's long fight for democracy in Brazil. The Brazilian president once argued that democracy will founder where inequality reigns. Today, he sees fighting inequality as democracy’s animating mission. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/lula...