Dissent Magazine

17/09/2026

In the time between David Morales’s first surprise victory in 2020 and his unprecedented upset this month, a lot has changed in Providence. His win was, in no small part, the result of six years of movement building.

The sweep by democratic socialist David Morales and other progressive primary candidates in Providence is a testament to years of organizing and coalition-building in the Ocean State.

17/09/2026

The end times fascists are fleeing the crises of poverty, environmental destruction, and tech overreach they helped cause. When the richest people on the planet speak of the end of the world, are they bluffing?

In End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor make the case that the ruling class is not lording over our future, but trying to escape it. How should the left resist doing the same?

17/09/2026

It’s easy to blow hot air about which group of workers don’t belong with whom. But it’s not a serious idea if it has no stakes: it’s the reaction of a child who thinks peas and ketchup shouldn’t touch on the plate.

Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.

17/09/2026

If the coalition in “End Times Fascism” is defined by abandonment of a shared future, then the response cannot itself be a form of abandonment—not a smaller commune or a more righteous collapse. There’s little difference, after all, between a bunker and a tomb.

In End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor make the case that the ruling class is not lording over our future, but trying to escape it. How should the left resist doing the same?

17/09/2026

Join us for a panel discussion with Julie C. Suk, David Bateman, and Zephyr Teachout, moderated by Daniel Schlozman. To what extent is the Constitution still viable, and what possibilities exist for reform?

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17/09/2026

Many across the political spectrum believe that the system cannot be fixed, only escaped, that we must create bunkers of our own. Have you not been at a party and heard the least capable person in your friend group suggest that everyone should pool their money and buy some land?

In End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor make the case that the ruling class is not lording over our future, but trying to escape it. How should the left resist doing the same?

17/09/2026

The task for everyone in the pro-democracy coalition is to use the case against Trump to offer a positive blueprint to improve the lives of working people. Whoever comes to lead the party in the years to come, from whatever faction, will have to understand what has changed.

Democrats have been telling their party for a while that its leadership has not met their expectations.

17/09/2026

The ground has eroded under what was once the middle class, writes Gabriel Winant, a rift has begun to open, and people are scrambling to get out and to give each other a hand up.

Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.

16/09/2026

While a typical prepper might build a fallout shelter, the cranks in “End Times Fascism” are attempting to establish their own sovereign, tech-powered cities outside existing legal frameworks, often organized around artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and “biohacking.”

In End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor make the case that the ruling class is not lording over our future, but trying to escape it. How should the left resist doing the same?

16/09/2026

Classes are made politically. When someone says that grad students have hijacked the UAW, or that gentrifiers are taking over the Democratic Party, they are not making a descriptive observation, but a normative one. Let them make their case.

Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.