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Feb 4, 2025 · Jonathan M. Katz ▪ February 4, 2025 An American flag flies behind barbed wire fencing at the Office of Military Commissions building at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. (Elise Swain/Getty Images) It’s hard to shake the feeling that Donald Trump is racing through the playbook of early twentieth-century U.S. imperialism.

Peter Dreier ▪ May 24, 2011 . Bob Dylan turns seventy today. The following essay is adapted from The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame, which Nation Books will publish early next year.. When the makers of Hollywood movies, documentary films, or TV news programs want to evoke the spirit of the 1960s, they typically show clips of long-haired hippies ...

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Gabriel Winant ▪ November 8, 2024 A campaign bus parked near an empty field after Kamala Harris’s election night watch party on November 5, 2024 (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) . The most important image of the 2024 election, to my eye, was generated one evening of the Democratic National Convention, when delegates had to file past protesters chanting the names and ages of dead ...

Nov 8, 2024 · Michael Kazin ▪ November 8, 2024 Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez speaks at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus event on November 18, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Perhaps the only positive consequence of the victory of an utterly despicable nominee and his down-ballot faithful is that progressives inside and outside the Democratic Party have begun to grope their way toward a common ...

J.W. Mason ▪ Fall 2024 Joe Biden at an Intel manufacturing facility in Chandler, Arizona that received funding from the CHIPS Act (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images) . In the first two years after Biden’s election, there was considerable enthusiasm on the left for the administration’s embrace of a larger, more active economic role for the federal government.

Editors ▪ December 20, 2024 Cover illustrations by Tabitha Arnold . We’re sharing a list of our most popular articles in 2024. If you enjoyed reading Dissent this year, consider subscribing or making a donation to support our work in 2025.. Our most-read articles in 2024: Exit Right by Gabriel Winant; Marvel World by Sam Adler-Bell ...

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