What can be done about housing costs? Housing is the most important piece of the affordability agenda—the single largest item in most families’ budgets, and the main reason that the cost of living is ...

Though America, América features as large a cast of characters as one would expect from a work of history that aspires to synthesize the development of an entire hemisphere over the course of half a ...

Patrick Iber Spring 2025 Buses of migrants from the Texas border arrive in New York City on September 25, 2022. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) This conversation took place on February ...

Nick Serpe April 29, 2025 Charles Murray speaking at FreedomFest in Las Vegas in 2013. (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons) In his last three books, Quinn Slobodian has enriched our understanding of the ...

Pablo Stefanoni March 4, 2025 Argentinian President Javier Milei wields a chainsaw as he arrives on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 20, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty ...

The contrast between the Reagan and Trump administrations are stark. Trump is pursuing his attack on federal workers’ rights through a “department” Congress neither created nor approved, Elon Musk’s ...

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 ...

Lorenzo McClellan September 10, 2024 James C. Scott When James C. Scott died earlier this summer at the age of eighty-seven, tributes to the scholar poured in from a bewildering variety of sources.

Gabriel Winant October 13, 2023 This is a response to “ Toward a Humane Left ” by Joshua Leifer. You can read Leifer’s reply here. One way of understanding Israel that I think should not be ...

Joshua Leifer October 13, 2023 This is a reply to Gabriel Winant’s “ On Mourning and Statehood.” You can read Joshua Leifer’s original article, “Toward a Humane Left,” here. Gabriel Winant has taken ...

Joshua Leifer October 12, 2023 Cars and a stroller left behind at the scene of a rocket attack from Gaza near the entrance of the Israeli kibbutz of Kfar Aza, October 10, 2023. (THOMAS COEX/AFP via ...