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- The Lost Art of Looking at Nature https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-lost-art-of-looking-at-nature 9 comments
- Revised estimates of the share of national income going to top earners https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/rising-income-inequality-usa-piketty-study 85 comments
- Booked: When Slaveholders Controlled the Government https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/booked-slaveholders-controlled-government-matthew-karp 49 comments
- The Art of Gentrification http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-art-of-gentrification 7 comments
- Student Loans: The new indentured servitude? http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1303 28 comments
- In East Africa, the promised trickle-down effects of foreign investment have not materialized. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/up-from-sweatshops/ 13 comments economics
- Xi is Not Mao https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/xi-is-not-mao 30 comments china
- Can We Democratize AI? - Dissent Magazine https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/can-we-democratize-ai 3 comments technology
- The Politics of Protection In The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-politics-of-protection-paolo-gerbaudo 7 comments politics
- Federalism Is Killing Us | Deference to state governments has severely undermined public health efforts during the pandemic and deepened geographic inequality in the United States. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/federalism-is-killing-us 54 comments politics
- The Public Sector We Need https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-public-sector-we-need 7 comments economy
- Legacies of Cold War Liberalism | To promote democratic and egalitarian ideals today, we need to break with the anxieties that drove U.S. politics during the Cold War. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/legacies-of-cold-war-liberalism 6 comments politics
- Backlash Forever | Dissent Magazine https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/backlash-forever 3 comments politics
- The Not-So-Strange Death of Right Populism https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-not-so-strange-death-of-right-populism 15 comments politics
- This Is Who We Are | Dissent Magazine https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/this-is-who-we-are 3 comments politics
- Union Power After the Election | The development of a social democratic faction in the Democratic Party has given labor a chance to punch above its weight. But access alone isn’t power. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/union-power-after-the-election 29 comments politics
- "We Need a Lobsterwoman AOC": The Future of Maine Politics https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/we-need-a-lobsterwoman-aoc-the-future-of-maine-politics 34 comments politics
- Belabored: The Senate Fiddles While America Burns, with Rebecca Dixon https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-the-senate-fiddles-while-america-burns-with-rebecca-dixon 5 comments politics
- All Luck and No Virtue: Sweden's Coronavirus Response https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/all-luck-and-no-virtue-swedens-coronavirus-response 7 comments europe
- The Bus Drivers’ Refusal: Transit unions around the country have declined requests from police departments to transport protesters to jail. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-bus-drivers-refusal 16 comments politics
- The Realigners: An Interview with Waleed Shahid of Justice Democrats https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-realigners-an-interview-with-waleed-shahid-of-justice-democrats 4 comments politics
- The Reactionary Heartland Is a Myth https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-reactionary-heartland-is-a-myth 23 comments politics
- The Far-Right Roots of “Straight Pride” https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-far-right-roots-of-straight-pride 28 comments politics
- Power Is Sovereignty, Mr. Bond: The hundreds of U.S. military bases scattered across the globe might seem like small, unimportant dots on a map, but they are the foundation of the U.S. Empire today. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/hide-an-empire-us-military-bases-abroad 4 comments politics
- Jeff Bezos Has Enough! Could a maximum wage gain traction in the United States? https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/jeff-bezos-has-enough 60 comments politics
- The Great Race Panic https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-great-race-panic 9 comments politics
- Laundering Racism Through the Court: The Scandal of States' Rights https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/laundering-racism-through-court-scandal-states-rights-federalism 3 comments politics
- What Is Democratic Socialism? https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/what-is-democratic-socialism 10 comments politics
- National Democrats should stop second-guessing their base. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/trust-base-dccc-dscc-party-leaders-primaries 39 comments politics
- The New Conspiracists: Conspiracism has traveled from the margins to the mainstream, infusing public life and altering the bounds of what is acceptable in democratic politics. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/conspiracy-theories-politics-infowars-threat-democracy 9 comments politics
- Nationalize the Networks https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/net-neutrality-repeal-case-for-public-broadband 8 comments politics
- Thanks to Trump, Workers May Soon Lose the Right to Bring Class-Action Lawsuits https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/trump-supreme-court-class-action-lawsuits-arbitration-workers-rights 10 comments politics
- Leaving Conservatism Behind https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/leaving-conservatism-behind-blue-collar-republican-progressive 4 comments politics
- What’s the Matter with Iowa? https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/iowa-gop-collective-bargaining-minimum-wage-alec-agenda 16 comments politics
- The Triumph of the 1% | Dissent Magazine https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/rising-income-inequality-usa-piketty-study 27 comments politics
- Why Leftists Should Vote for Hillary Clinton: A Donald Trump presidency would be a disaster—for the left, for liberal democracy, for most ordinary citizens and especially those who are not white men, and for the world. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/last-call-leftists-vote-hillary-clinton 36 comments politics
- Cockblocked by Redistribution: A Pick-up Artist in Denmark (x-post from /r/denmark) http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/cockblocked-by-redistribution 16 comments europe
- From Master Plan to No Plan: The Slow Death of Public Higher Education http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/from-master-plan-to-no-plan-the-slow-death-of-public-higher-education 3 comments politics
- If the Supreme Court took the language, history, and structure of the First Amendment seriously, it would declare laws authorizing same-sex marriages unconstitutional—and void every other existing marriage law too. Under the U.S. Constitution, marriage belongs in church, not in the courthouse. http://www.dissentmagazine.org/atw.php?id=795 4 comments politics
- Best Obama win analogy: "Blazing Saddles" http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online.php?id=168 3 comments politics