The AI investment boom is a gamble of epic proportions. Yet on both sides of the wager, it seems, the house wins.

We’re living in a period of excess business pricing power, not overbearing workers.

Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and ...

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Redlining maps document the deep history of institutional racism in the United States. They also reveal how the federal government managed risk for capital—a role that has perpetuated inequality long ...

Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly ...

Dissent’s office in Manhattan has three internship terms each year: Spring, Summer, and Fall. Editorial interns at Dissent work closely with the staff and assist with the entire range of magazine work ...

Matt and Sam talk to historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her new book, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America.

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It is not just the economic climate in which our colleges and universities find themselves that determines what they charge and how they operate; it is their increasing corporatization. Nicolaus Mills ...

This article is followed by a response by Andrew F. March, along with Michael Walzer’s reply. To read the exchange, click here. In the three and a half decades since the Iranian revolution, I have ...

Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy. Vanessa Williamson Winter 2021 A composite photograph of South ...