Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here ...

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 ...

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad Spring 2025 Syrians search through scattered documents in Sednaya prison for information about people who were disappeared during the Assad era. (Lynsey Addario/Getty Images) In ...

El Akkad is not the first person to wrestle with the relation between writing and effective moral change. As far back as Aristotle, philosophers have wondered if the written word could meaningfully ...

Despite all this, Tolkien has many left-wing fans. They can point to his celebration of working-class heroes like Sam Gamgee over the more well-heeled and gentlemanly Frodo, his call for an ethics of ...

Wadie E. Said March 14, 2025 Supporters of Mahmoud Khalil in New York City on March 12 (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Though the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil has been widely covered, it still does not cease ...

Daniel Luban March 13, 2025 Elon Musk and Donald Trump at the signing for the executive order that created DOGE (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) The onslaught of the first weeks of Donald Trump’s second ...

Ned Resnikoff, Brian Callaci and Sandeep Vaheesan Winter 2025 Construction at a multifamily housing development in Los Angeles (Mario Tama/Getty Images) After decades of relative stagnation, American ...

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 ...

Just as in 2016, Harris supporters have fallen back on the racism and sexism of American society as an explanation for defeat. No doubt these are hulking obstacles, but they don’t suffice as omnibus ...