How did private insurance companies come to control U.S. health care—and make our coverage the most expensive in the world?
Labour fared much better in Thursday’s election than many had predicted—myself included. But to win decisively in future, it still has work to do.
Putting both the Conservatives and the pundit class to shame, Labour’s impressive gains in yesterday’s election show that a left alternative is still possible.
Since the Great Recession, Karl Polanyi has become a totem for social democracy. But as a new biography of him suggests, Polanyi himself is an uneasy fit as spokesman for any specific social order.
Bob Master of CWA joins us to talk about AT&T workers’ three-day strike. Plus: we hear from the Dominican Republic about call center workers organizing in solidarity with their U.S. counterparts.
Ironically, Trump’s symbolic withdrawal from the largely symbolic Paris Agreement seems to be alerting the American mainstream to a very real emergency—one that long predates yesterday’s announcement.
Watch Dissent editors Sarah Leonard and Tim Shenk face off with Julius Krein and Gladden Pappin, editors of the new journal American Affairs, on nationalism, race, and more.
Coal embodies capitalism’s most telling paradox: that the most lucrative industries are often the most dangerous. And from the days of slavery to the present, corporations have found ways to profit from the resulting deaths.
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake shows the cruelties of the UK’s benefits system, but fails to challenge the idea that benefits should only go to the “deserving” poor.
Understanding the “alt-right” means spending less time looking to its leaders for ideological coherence and more on understanding how its base exercises power.