Even when there were figures who almost fit that role—like Thurgood Marshall or Ruth Bader Ginsburg—they couldn’t keep ...

An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.

Matt and Sam talk with Daniel Martinez HoSang about the gains the GOP and Trump are making with racial minorities.

This article is one in a series of arguments on free speech in our summer issue. The raging debates over free speech on the left have contributed to a liberal panic around “cancel culture.” In this ...

Editors July 22, 2025 Why are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma willing to court danger to help one another? Historian and Dissent editorial board member Jeffrey Wasserstrom interviewed ...

In an increasingly expensive and antisocial world, tradwives forsake life with others for the lonely, constrictive spaces of bourgeois ownership.