The chances for durable peace may depend on Trump’s whims.

Matt and Sam talk to historian Erik Baker about his new book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted ...

With every extreme weather event, housing is damaged and belongings are lost. Insurance is supposed to be the safety net that helps people to recover and restart their lives. But as major disasters ...

Dissent is a magazine of politics and ideas published in print three times a year. Founded by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser in 1954, it quickly established itself as one of America’s leading ...

After decades of relative stagnation, American housing policy is now several years into a period of radical change and experimentation. In California, where I am policy director for the state-level ...

With over 150 million copies sold, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is one of the best-selling prose narratives of the twentieth century and remains beloved by fans across the globe. The ...

Tenant organizers demand that housing be more than just a bare roof over your head, and in doing so they make space for a full life. Sarah Jaffe ▪ Winter 2025 A group of tenants celebrates a ...

In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices are poised to uphold bans on medicine for transgender minors. According to Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, who is ...

W.W. Norton, 2024, 176 pp. Over the past eight years, a series of major document leaks has shone a spotlight on tax havens and their users. The Panama Papers, made up of 11.5 million documents from ...

It is hard to call people into a political project that is deeply incompatible with their sense of what it means to act morally in the world. Patrick Iber ▪ Winter 2025 Art by Tabitha Arnold ...