In late April 1994, Roméo Dallaire, head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), drove through a village outside the Rwandan capital, Kigali, stopping repeatedly to clear corpses ...

A start-up turned real estate giant, WeWork has turned co-working into a global industry by selling a lifestyle where work and play are virtually indistinguishable. Kate Aronoff ▪ Winter 2017 ...

Edmund Wilson has been an object of saintly veneration and nostalgia to those old enough to remember when literary critics were arbiters of how people spent their time between meals and work. Who now, ...

Mark Tushnet ▪ August 19, 2025 A rally for transgender youth held in Washington, D.C. in June 2025 in response to the Skrmetti decision (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) In 1890 Louisiana’s ...

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 dozens of dissidents from ...

Penguin Press, 2024, 464 pp. In River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Peter Hessler explored the novelty of being a foreign teacher in Fuling, China, in the mid-nineties. Most of his students were ...

In the second of two episodes on Elon Musk, Matt and Sam examine key moments in the billionaire’s political derangement, his purchase of Twitter, and his role in Trump’s second term. If there’s ever ...

The war on terrorism presents any thinking person with what appears to be an irresolvable dilemma. [1] On the one hand, as citizens, we claim to have inalienable rights that protect us against force, ...

Matt and Sam are joined by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes to discuss his new book The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource. We’re all anxious, and none of us can pay attention.

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Matt and Sam talk to historian Erik Baker about his new book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America. This is a fascinating episode that takes up figures that the ...

Tenant organizers demand that housing be more than just a bare roof over your head, and in doing so they make space for a full life. Sarah Jaffe ▪ Winter 2025 A group of tenants celebrates a ...