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[l] at 7/24/24 3:46pm
Hope will be an essential resource for her campaign. At her first rally, she succeeded in providing it.

[Category: Featured Item, Online Articles, Show on Homepage, 2024 election, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris]

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[l] at 7/24/24 10:11am
Join Dissent on August 2 at the Francis Kite Club.

[Category: Events]

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[l] at 7/22/24 6:51am
The new militancy coursing through the labor movement has revealed the growth of a more expansive and democratic union culture.

[Category: Article, Featured Item, Show on Homepage, American labor movement, Labor, labor intellectuals, UAW, union politics, unions, Walter Reuther]

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[l] at 7/19/24 12:28pm
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Suzanne Schneider to discuss how Israeli illiberalism is inspiring the global right.

[Category: Blog, Know Your Enemy, Podcast, Show on Homepage, Benjamin Netanyahu, conservatism, illiberal democracy, illiberalism, Israel, Israel/Palestine, Liberalism, National Conservatism, Yoram Hazony]

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[l] at 7/19/24 9:09am
A culture of reverence for the U.S. Constitution shields the founding document from criticism, despite its many shortcomings. We need an alternative vision that provides meaningful freedom at home and embraces self-determination abroad.

[Category: Featured Item, Online Articles, Show on Homepage, constitution, Constitutional convention, Constitutional law]

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[l] at 7/18/24 2:51pm
Biden claims he is remaining in the race because the threat of Trump is too great. That’s the exact reason he should consider retiring.

[Category: Show on Homepage, 2024 election, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, biden, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, popular front]

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[l] at 7/16/24 12:48pm
A reply to Gemma Sack.

[Category: college, Israel, Palestine, student protests]

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[l] at 7/16/24 6:52am
A roundtable discussion on the global networks and political strategies of nationalist conservatives.

[Category: Article, Show on Homepage, Antonio Gramsci, Global right, Gramsci, nationalism, Populism, radical conservatism, radical right]

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[l] at 7/8/24 1:44pm
Deeply ingrained inequalities—many of which are reflective of the country’s patchwork healthcare system—belie rosy projections that Biden is delivering inclusive growth.

[Category: Article, Featured Item, Show on Homepage, American Rescue Plan, biden, Bidenomics, health insurance, health policy, healthcare, Joe Biden, Medicaid, Medicare]

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[l] at 7/1/24 6:51am
The two old men worried to their very cores about Trump came to opposite decisions: Mitt Romney quit, and Joe Biden is running again. Both may have chosen wrong.

[Category: Article, Books and Culture, Featured Item, Show on Homepage, American politics, biden, Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, Romney, Tea Party, Trump]

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[l] at 6/25/24 9:15am
In an era of retrenchment in social policy, food assistance is becoming more generous and inclusive. But Republican politicians are attempting to gut one of the most popular programs: free school lunch.

[Category: Featured Item, Online Articles, Show on Homepage, Federalism, Food, food stamps, inequality, Koch Brothers, localism, snap, social policy, USDA, welfare, Welfare state]

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[l] at 6/24/24 12:01pm
Matt and Sam interview John Ganz about his new book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.

[Category: Blog, Featured Item, Know Your Enemy, Podcast, Show on Homepage, 1990s, Bill Clinton, cold war, conservatism, Donald Trump, John Ganz, John Gotti, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, Sam Francis]

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[l] at 6/21/24 12:09pm
Percival Everetts James, set in the nineteenth century, is a novel of the present moment—when legal measures that were once regarded as essential components of racial justice are being dismantled.

[Category: Online Articles, Show on Homepage, American history, Civil War, Frederick Douglass, Huck Finn, Mark Twain, Racial justice, Racism, slavery]

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[l] at 6/18/24 6:52am
Matt and Sam are joined by Neil J. Young to discuss his new book, Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right.

[Category: Blog, Featured Item, Know Your Enemy, Podcast, Show on Homepage, conservatism, gay liberation, Gay rights, HIV/AIDS, Religious right, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan]

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[l] at 6/11/24 10:26am
While the largest diasporic population of Palestinians in the world contains strong political disagreements, they have made Chile a stalwart opponent of the war in Gaza.

[Category: Featured Item, Show on Homepage, Chile, Gaza War, Israel, Latin America, Palestine, Pinochet]

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[l] at 6/5/24 2:20pm
The election of Claudia Sheinbaum, building on the record popularity of her predecessor AMLO, is one more step in the decline of the once-hegemonic PRI.

[Category: Online Articles, Show on Homepage, AMLO, Claudia Sheinbaum, Latin America, Mexico, MORENA]

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[l] at 5/28/24 8:00am
Tim Barker and Ben Mabie join to tell the story of American labor militancy in the 1930s—and how the right responded.

[Category: Blog, Featured Item, Know Your Enemy, Podcast, Show on Homepage, AFL-CIO, CIO, conservatism, Fragile Juggernaut, labor movement, New Deal, unions]

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[l] at 5/22/24 7:15am
By looking at right-wing politics around the world, we can better understand conservatives abiding preoccupations and priorities, and how they might be thwarted. Introducing our Spring 2024 issue, “The Global Right.”

[Category: Article, Featured Item, Show on Homepage, conservatism, Global right, nationalism, neoliberalism, Populism]

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[l] at 5/22/24 6:59am
The virtues of left unity are still obvious, but the grounds for compromise are harder to see.

[Category: Article, Editor's Page, biden, conservatism, Joe Biden, leftism, neoliberalism]

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[l] at 5/22/24 6:59am
Georgia’s sweeping and political application of conspiracy law echoes a tactic that shattered the left roughly a hundred years ago, when the U.S. government targeted socialist parties and militant unions with laws against criminal syndicalism, espionage, and sedition.

[Category: Article, Atlanta, Black Lives Matter protests, Cop City, IWW, police repression, protest, RICO, solidarity, syndicalism]

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[l] at 5/22/24 6:59am
In Suneil Sanzgiri’s new film, the landscape remains as a last witness to the violence of colonial power.

[Category: Article, Books and Culture, Angola, colonialism, Decolonization, film, Goa, India, Portugal, Suneil Sanzgiri, Third Cinema]

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