What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to ...

Ross Perlin is co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance. His latest book is Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s ...

Public Housing: Tenants and Troubles Mike Miller and Carl Werthman Summer 1961 By June 30, 1960, the New York City Housing Authority had become the country’s largest landlord, housing some 567,000 ...

If Howe's intellectual evolution has meaning for today’s left, it is to be found in his struggle to transcend sectarian mindsets while remaining principled.

In the castle-like San Francisco Armory, the Internet porn production company Kink.com hosts live-streamed sex parties where unpaid "guests" are invited to perform S&M scenes for the camera. What ...

In the era of global capitalism, imagining the lives of others is a crucial form of solidarity.

At Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, incarcerated women fear for the elderly and babies among them.

For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient.

The growing militancy of the Republican right is less about an alliance of small business against big business than it is an insurrection of one form of capitalism against another: the private, ...

Dylan’s off-and-on engagement with politics is intriguing. But his peace and justice songs have had a life of their own. Bob Dylan turns seventy today. The following essay is adapted from The 100 ...

Like all adjectives, “liberal” modifies and complicates the noun it precedes. It determines not who we are but how we are who we are—how we enact our ideological commitments.

Ann Snitow, feminist writer, teacher, activist, and longtime member of Dissent’s editorial board, died on Saturday, August 10. Here she is remembered by her friends, colleagues, and comrades.