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What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to ...
Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here ...
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 ...
Lyra Walsh Fuchs April 20, 2020 Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Bedford, New York (Google Earth) At Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for women, the third floor of Building 5, which used to ...
Beyond Municipalism Barcelona and Jackson are two cities among many at the forefront of the municipalist moment. As the left gains power in city governments across the world, does this tale of two ...
Peter Dreier May 24, 2011 Bob Dylan turns seventy today. The following essay is adapted from The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame, which Nation Books will ...
Melinda Cooper March 18, 2025 Donald Trump awards the National Medal of Freedom to former attorney general Edwin Meese on October 8, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Just a few months in, any ...
Patrick Iber is co-editor of Dissent. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a research professor at UNC-Chapel Hill’s iSchool, a MacArthur Fellow, and a New York Times contributing opinion writer. She is a ...
Called together by the Charleston Chamber of Commerce and the Charleston Board of Trade, the Tax-Payers’ Convention of South Carolina met in Columbia in May 1871 and again in February 1874 to seek, ...
History Won’t Do Our Work for Us From Gramsci’s political and strategic thinking comes a set of ideas that arguably have only grown more salient with time. Among them: That revolutionary change will ...