Dissent Magazine

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Democratic socialist since 1954.

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Dissent Magazine @DissentMag Sep 8

The Fall 2026 issue of Dissent on technology, "Artificial Futures," is out now. Everything is a wager these days. Before our eyes, however, a collective gamble of more epic proportions has begun to take shape.

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Cover of Dissent magazine Fall 2026 issue titled "Artificial Futures," featuring a person using a laptop and sitting on blocks as they fall away.

Back cover of the Fall 2026 issue of Dissent titled "Artificial Futures."

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“Affordability” is the primary rallying cry of American politics today. But while most politicians say that they want to help people afford their lives, what really matters is how.

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dissentmagazine.org The Fight Over Affordability - Dissent Magazine We’re living in a period of excess business pricing power, not overbearing workers.

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The next Democratic president will need to project a vision of foreign policy rooted in transnational solidarity and strategic humility.

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dissentmagazine.org Building a Post-Trump Foreign Policy - Dissent Magazine Progressives need to ground international commitments to democratic accountability at home and engage with social movements abroad. Few political figures have articulated this as clearly as Alexand...

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Our slow-motion climate change crisis echoes in Solvej Balle’s pages: In “On the Calculation of Volume,” the seasons no longer cycle, and plants and animals do not grow.

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dissentmagazine.org Solvej Balle’s Never-Ending November - Dissent Magazine The protagonist of the cult time-loop series On the Calculation of Volume lives in the middle of a slow-motion catastrophe, slipping day-by-day into an altered and dubious future.

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Ending surveillance pricing and wages would not automatically give workers wealth, savings, or security. But it would make the prospect of mobility and transformation possible.

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dissentmagazine.org Life Under the Algorithm - Dissent Magazine Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.