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Our summer issue on America at 250 is out now.
In our special section, we have approached the country's anniversary from our perspective on the left. What can it mean to us?
Featuring cover art by @thetolerantweft
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- The coronavirus has exposed how little remains of the “one country, two systems” framework. @jwassers dissentmagazine.org/online_article…
- "How to grieve, what meaning to give those tears, is cruelly a political question whether we like it or not," @gabrielwinant writes.
- From Arizona to Puerto Rico to France, South Korea, and beyond, solidarity to everyone in the streets today for workers' rights #MayDay
- Dissent is launching a program to publish emerging writers and new voices. Accepted applicants will work closely with a member of our editorial board to refine their work prior to publication. Pitches accepted until July 1, 2022.
- The repeal of #NetNeutrality shows that it’s not enough to regulate the telecom giants. We need to bring the internet under public control.
- .@gabrielwinant on the election: "Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same."
- UnitedHealthcare's 2023 earnings were $371.6 billion, up $47.5 billion from the previous year. How much would the company still have made if they actually provided people the care they promised?
- Earnestness, it turned out, could be every bit as narcissistic and empty as cynicism.
- Those concerned about black women’s votes may want to study the incredible history of black women’s organizing in the South. @DrMChatelain: dissentmagazine.org/online_article…
- "More than any previous Hong Kong protest, the 2019 anti-extradition movement embodies bitter anguish over the city’s place in a world that no longer seems to need it," @wilfredchan writes
- Israelis do not bat an eye when they hear reports of dozens of children and women killed in a bombing. They just don’t care.
- Higher education can’t solve inequality, but the debate about free college tuition does something extremely valuable. It reintroduces the concept of public good to education discourse. From our archives, @tressiemcphd on why free college is necessary: dissentmagazine.org/article/tressi…
