The work of the left at this moment is to understand what new spaces have opened up and how to build upon them.
Introducing our Winter 2022 special section, “Beyond Bidenomics.”
Winter 2022
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Can We Democratize AI?
Artificial intelligence has often been adopted in ways that reinforce exploitation and domination. But that doesn’t mean we should greet all new AI tools with refusal.
Beyond Bidenomics
A preview of our next issue.
Feminists on All Sides
Desire is shaped by social assumptions and prejudices, Amia Srinivasan argues in The Right to Sex. So what does one do about it?
Dissent in 2021
A look at our most-read articles this year.
Know Your Enemy: Hindsight is 2021
Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Garry Wills, human nature, how and whether to interview conservatives, Nixon, Bob Dylan, and bourbon.
The End of Neoliberalism in Chile?
The election of Gabriel Boric and the ongoing process to write a new constitution present a historic opportunity for the left to shape a new social pact in Chile.
The Deep History of Climate Change
An interview with Amitav Ghosh, the author of The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.
Belabored: The Great Resignation
Rebecca Kolins Givan and C.M. Lewis look back at the year in labor.
Community College: The Great Equalizer?
Even if community colleges were fully funded, students could still face a curriculum and styles of instruction that reinforce their unequal position in the social order.
China’s Market Reformers
While China is often seen as an outlier from neoliberal trends, its transformation in recent decades was not at odds with tectonic shifts in the global system of growth but an essential part of it.
An American Landscape
In 1943, Ansel Adams traveled to the base of the Sierra Nevada to photograph Manzanar—one of the ten internment camps that together detained 120,000 Japanese Americans during the Second World War.
How the Hart–Celler Act Changed America
The 1960s effort to end discriminatory quotas sowed the seeds of the political conflicts over immigration that are still with us today.
