Public Housing: Tenants and Troubles Public Housing: Tenants and Troubles Mike Miller and Carl Werthman ▪ Summer 1961. By June 30, 1960, the New York City Housing Authority had become the ...

The Candlelight Revolution represents in some ways an alternative to the region’s potentially cataclysmic violence. The perils of any war in Korea are clear; the nightmare of nuclear warfare has ...

Manuel Pastor ▪ June 13, 2025 Faith leaders pray in front of National Guard officers at a protest in Los Angeles on June 10, 2025. (Courtesy of Joseph Tomás McKellar) Los Angeles is ...

Ross Perlin is co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance. His latest book is Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York.. Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s ...

In July 1871, the Nation, like many other Northern media outlets, covered the proceedings of the Tax-Payers’ Convention of South Carolina.Though the magazine was founded by abolitionists, the ...

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 ...

Neoliberalism has many histories. Milton Friedman, the Chicago school, Pinochet, Thatcher and Reagan’s market revolution, IMF structural adjustment, and shock-therapy transition programs for the ...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ▪ Fall 2018 Richard Nixon, HUD Secretary Romney, and D.C. Mayor Washington tour a neighborhood damaged by riots after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. (Wally McNamee ...

William P. Jones ▪ February 4, 2022 An oil platform in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2016 (Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images) . Booked is a series of interviews about new books. In this edition, ...

Mark Engler and Paul Engler ▪ August 29, 2023 Students look at a mural of Antonio Gramsci in Orgosolo, Italy, in 1975. (Mondadori via Getty Images) He has been called one of the most original ...

U.S. law designates Guam as “foreign in a domestic sense” and “domestic in a foreign sense.” That is, while Guam is geopolitically important enough to make U.S. influence there worthwhile, U.S.

Editors ▪ August 14, 2019 Ann Snitow in Warsaw, Poland, June 2015 (Elżbieta Matynia) . Ann Snitow, feminist writer, teacher, activist, and longtime member of Dissent’s editorial board, died on ...