The Candlelight Revolution sprang from a collective determination to act against a system in which only the wealthy and connected appear to advance. South Korea has a significantly higher level of ...

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 country’s largest landlord, housing some 567,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editors ▪ June 12, 2025 . Join Dissent at Book Culture on Thursday, July 10 at 7 p.m. for a discussion about Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today, ...

Editors June 4, 2025 As major climate disasters increase in frequency across the country, homeowners and renters are faced with new dilemmas about how to protect themselves and their communities. How ...

China's younger generation of feminists pose a unique threat to the Communist Party. By celebrating single, queer, and often child-free women, they are challenging government edicts that marriage and ...

RaMell Ross is a visual artist, photographer, and writer. He is an assistant professor in Brown University’s visual arts department. Max Fraser is an assistant professor of American history at the ...

Jared Anthony Loggins Fall 2022 A photograph taken by civil rights marchers on the way from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, of a billboard depicting Martin Luther King Jr. at the Highlander Folk School ...

Basic Books, 2020, 528 pp. The Clint Eastwood Western The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), a genre-defining fantasy of anti-government violence, finds redemption for the failed ideas of the white South in ...

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 ...