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Editors July 22, 2025 Why are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma willing to court danger to help one another? Historian and Dissent editorial board member Jeffrey Wasserstrom interviewed ...
Kinkade called himself the Painter of Light, but Art for Everybody finds the darkness in his life. Relatives recount that ...
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Spring 2025

Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.
Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.
To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient details in favor of a morality play.
An interview with Dara Lind and Omar Jadwat on immigration policy in the second Trump administration.
An interview with Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.
Our documentary No Other Land won an Oscar, but the conditions it depicts are only getting worse.
Pablo Stefanoni March 4, 2025 Argentinian President Javier Milei wields a chainsaw as he arrives on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 20, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty ...
Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. The answers were ...
When James C. Scott died earlier this summer at the age of eighty-seven, tributes to the scholar poured in from a bewildering variety of sources. Like members of a fractious clan rushing to the family ...
Matt and Sam revisit J.D. Vance's 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy to try to understand the Republican vice-presidential nominee.