Documentarian Frederick Wiseman died today at age 96. "At a moment when many of the institutions he documented are being decimated and our attention is divided," Natasha Lewis wrote last year, "Wiseman’s films are out of time and completely timely." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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Trump has doubled down on long-standing efforts to diminish the capacity of states to deliver social goods and protection beyond federal limits, while infusing that austerity with the logic of retribution. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

The history of the Garland Fund shows the potential role philanthropy can play in moments of rising authoritarianism—and the tensions inherent in that role. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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For decades, national policies have compelled states to pare back eligibility and benefits for social programs. Under Trump, federal austerity has become a tool to punish political enemies. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

On a new episode of Know Your Enemy, a conversation with Jason Zengerle about Tucker Carlson's political trajectory and how he has navigated a changing media landscape. dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

🇺🇸 Todos hemos visto los vídeos de Mamdani, pero su éxito se debe a una estrategia digital que va más allá de las redes sociales, como explica muy bien este artículo de @arvinalaigh.bsky.social en @dissentmag.bsky.social que he traducido para @elsaltodiario.com. www.elsaltodiario.com/redes-social...

Socialists in Milwaukee are largely remembered for their achievements within the city’s limits. But they also understood themselves to be international actors, as did a substantial number of the people who voted them into power. dissentmagazine.org/article/more...

It was a labor of love to collaborate with my friend Bob Bussel the former director of U of Oregon's Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) on this remembrance of Nick Salvatore, Eugene Debs's biographer, and a mentor and dear friend to us both. Nick's story has special meaning in this time.

"I am never the first person to arrive at an ICE raid. I am never the last person to leave." Read Maeve Aickin's dispatch from Minneapolis: dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Good piece that gets at an often underdiscussed issue -- of how much work in rebuilding state capacity (or denazification of remaining state capacity) will be necessary post-Trump dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

In his final weeks, Eugene Debs biographer Nick Salvatore smiled when he heard Zohran Mamdani invoke the socialist icon in his acceptance speech. Salvatore urged us both to keep the faith and never to forget the immensity of the challenges ahead.

Nick Salvatore, biographer of Eugene Debs, died at age 82 in November. Robert Bussel and @josephamccartin.bsky.social remember his work and legacy. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

New episode of Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam talk with David Adler and Matt Kirkegaard of @progintl.bsky.social about Venezuela, Greenland, and the “Donroe Doctrine” dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete. Read @wlacher.bsky.social and @yguichaoua.bsky.social in our new issue: dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

The success of Zohran’s agenda will depend on an ambitious digital strategy that transcends social media performance. Read @arvinalaigh.bsky.social on online organizing: dissentmagazine.org/article/mamd...

An excellent, devastating critique of a field of policy practice & academic study that became an industry of liberal institutionalism all about procedure rather than substance, by @wlacher.bsky.social & @yguichaoua.bsky.social: The Demise of Conflict Studies dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Great @resnikoff.bsky.social piece: dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Hugely uplifting piece by Kushanava Choudhury @dissentmag.bsky.social - on what's possible, the Kerala model of bottom-up community decision-making about health, education, food management, basic economic security, "and dignity for all people." dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

An excellent and thoughtful piece by @yguichaoua.bsky.social and @wlacher.bsky.social, well worth reading for those of us who have been wondering where the future of peace and conflict research, and more importantly, teaching, lies. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Gaza and the long collapse of the field of conflict studies - important piece by @wlacher.bsky.social and Yvan Guichaoua dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

I want to cry about how perfect this essay is. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better. Read @resnikoff.bsky.social on why the left needs bureaucrats: dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Terrific essay about the need for and value of public administration. @resnikoff.bsky.social refutes critiques of bureaucracy by both Right AND LEFT. We need more and better bureaucracy not less. Here’s to public admin education and training! dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Important piece from @yguichaoua.bsky.social @wlacher.bsky.social. As someone who is wondering whether she should continue to teach "International conflict management" rename the class "conflict making" or eliminate it, I'd like to offer a friendly critique. 1/11 dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Impressive and brutal reflexive piece on conflict studies by two leading voices in the field: @yguichaoua.bsky.social & @wlacher.bsky.social A short 🧵 dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam talk to Robert Draper about his reporting from the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how the Republican Party “lost its mind” in the months that followed. dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

"Worse, instead of speaking out as other disciplines did, the field morally collapsed from within, by remaining overwhelmingly silent in the face of Western-backed mass killing in Gaza." dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

"A lot depends, for example, on whether state and local transportation departments are staffed by car-brained traffic engineers or planners who are genuinely invested in walkability and developing viable mass transit networks." There's never been a better time to go work in municipal govt

I wrote about Amazon’s robot revolution. Thanks @dissentmag.bsky.social for publishing it. dissentmagazine.org/article/amaz...

for the new issue of @dissentmag.bsky.social, I wrote about Mamdani's approach to digital organizing -- I try to demystify what goes into a digital electoral program! give it a lil read and let me know what you think

Very happy to have a piece on public lands in the new issue on Socialism in the City; very important to connect movement goals across these spaces! dissentmagazine.org/article/a-ne... (will be unpaywalled at some point; pls contact me for PDF)

In the 2020s, wars in Sudan & Gaza have reshaped global conflict, but the academic field meant to study them is in crisis. Are conflict studies losing their purpose? @wlacher.bsky.social & @yguichaoua.bsky.social explore this question in @dissentmag.bsky.social 👇👇 dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

one payoff of being a bureaucracy understander is functionally achieving goal of ‘abolish ICE’ without the slogan and its political overhead. republicans know how to do this and have done it often

The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

The winter issue of Dissent is live! I wrote an essay for them about Mamdani and the case for why the left should embrace bureaucracy and public service. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

New issue out today, special section on municipal socialism’s challenges and promises

For Dissent’s Winter issue, I wrote about urban climate risk, the burning of the Bronx, and @benchansfield.bsky.social’s phenomenal new book ‘Born in Flames.’

Our winter issue, Socialism in the City, is out now! Featuring @resnikoff.bsky.social @wlacher.bsky.social @yguichaoua.bsky.social @awhf.bsky.social @alanyan.bsky.social @atossaaraxia.bsky.social @mmschwartz.bsky.social @cgmaisano.bsky.social @arvinalaigh.bsky.social @ninasparling.bsky.social

In the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience. What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?

Zohran Mamdani’s successes and failures will shape how people around the country think about the viability of a socialist program, and whether socialists are capable of enacting it. Read @patrickiber.bsky.social's introduction to our new issue: dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

"Trump’s strategy appears to be to use threats of further violence & econ coercion to ensure compliance w/the US. That's unlikely to be sustainable for whoever leads Venezuela. The current regime relies on patronage networks that could easily fall apart...." A must read from @patrickiber.bsky.social

"it is the Venezuelan people who should decide how #Venezuela is governed", writes @patrickiber.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social. He adds that " #Maduro and #Trump share the same stance on elections: they are to be recognized if and only if they produce the result that the leader desires."

Think this is an important read. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

"Trump won’t care. He doesn’t know why international organizations exist. He may relish the idea of a world order in which the strong do what they may." This, from @patrickiber.bsky.social. was really illuminating. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Trump's National Security Strategy calls for a "Trump Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, in which strategic resources are kept out of the hands of rival powers. As I wrote yesterday in @dissentmag.bsky.social, it is unlikely to stop with Venezuela dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...