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The Fall 2026 issue of Dissent on technology, "Artificial Futures," is out now. Everything is a wager these days. Before our eyes, however, a collective gamble of more epic proportions has begun to take shape. Subscribe and read the issue: dissentmagazine.org/article/…

After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better. dissentmagazine.org/article/…

As many await a potential AI crash, the more pressing issue, from the perspective of a democratic society, is the unprecedented mobilization of capital for a labor-automating technology that remains deeply unpopular. dissentmagazine.org/article/…

“Ways of Seeing” was nearly impossible to see for decades after its initial broadcast; today, it is the chief entry point into John Berger’s oeuvre, watched freely by hundreds of thousands on YouTube. dissentmagazine.org/online_a…

The midterms will mark the beginning of (another) fight over the future of the Democratic Party. dissentmagazine.org/online_a…

Join Dissent for a conversation with Brian Chen, Veena Dubal, Clarissa Redwine, JS Tan, and Simon Torracinta to launch our fall issue, Artificial Futures. secure.givelively.org/event/…

The potential IPO for Anthropic is reportedly targeting a valuation above $1 trillion. The result will likely be similar to the SpaceX IPO: a mad dash to participate and the perpetuation of the AI investment boom. dissentmagazine.org/online_a…

The results of the midterm election suggest that Democratic voters are not afraid of voting for socialist candidates, including in places outside deeply Democratic urban centers. dissentmagazine.org/online_a…

If DSA hopes to recruit widely beyond college-educated radicals, we need to overcome social fragmentation. dissentmagazine.org/online_a…

Emmanuel Macron’s illiberal turn has fueled polarization, generating social and racial tensions that helped normalize Le Pen’s Islamophobic rhetoric. dissentmagazine.org/online_a…

Democratic socialists continue to make gains across the country. The mayors-elect of Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles—Janeese Lewis George and Nithya Raman—are both members of DSA. dissentmagazine.org/online_a…

Since his first election, Macron has been completely deaf to social demands, particularly those coming from young people. dissentmagazine.org/online_a…

The result of algorithmic wage discrimination and surveillance pricing is not only precarious economic uncertainty, but also poorer quality of life and health for workers and patients alike. dissentmagazine.org/article/…

DSA is one of the few socialist organizations that resulted from a merger, not a split. If AOC takes the leap but does not stick the landing, it’s difficult to envision a scenario where DSA as we know it stays together. dissentmagazine.org/online_a…

French society is on the verge of igniting. The principal architect of this fiasco is President Emmanuel Macron, who is bringing his second and final term to an end in a lamentable state. dissentmagazine.org/online_a…

The market should not know so much about us that it can meet us at every point of vulnerability and call the perverse result “freedom.” dissentmagazine.org/article/…

The popular mayor of New York City and a plausible 2028 presidential contender are DSA members. All of this is cause for celebration. But where does the organization go from here? dissentmagazine.org/online_a…

Algorithmic wages and prices are symptoms of a political economy built on the continuous conversion of movement, delay, fatigue, debt, location, browsing, hunger, punctuality, and desperation into commercial leverage. dissentmagazine.org/article/…

Millions of people are now effectively locked out of ownership for the foreseeable future. What has emerged in their place is a fast-growing renter majority—an expansive potential base for tenant politics. dissentmagazine.org/article/…

Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future. dissentmagazine.org/article/…