This is an excellent, thought-provoking piece by @wlacher.bsky.social and @yguichaoua.bsky.social discussing the subject (and industry) around conflict studies. Its a piece I'll be chewing on for the next couple of days, and something I've been feeling as well
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The protests and repression that preceded the U.S.โIsraeli bombing campaign exposed both the fragility of the Iranian governing elite and the organizational weakness of Iranian civil societyโdynamics that will continue to shape the country in the months to come.
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The end of the twentieth century left rural America shell-shocked, and residents reacted accordingly.
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On the Know Your Enemy podcast, Matt and Sam talk to @mattduss.bsky.social about the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran.
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The piece @wlacher.bsky.social and I wrote for @dissentmag.bsky.social is now available in Arabic | The Demise of Conflict Studies
โTo see an opposite energetic and extractive agenda accomplished through the same techniques is uncanny. The stated goal of a new instruction memorandum for oil and gas leasing [โฆ] could have been written by either administration.โ
As in, Biden or Trump.
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Check out my former UWM colleague Aims McGuinness on the often misunderstood idea of "sewer socialism," Milwaukee history, and the interconnection of local and international politics.
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Hannah Spencerโs victory in a UK parliamentary by-election is a major win for the Green Party, which aims to build a viable left-populist alternative to Reform UK and Keir Starmerโs Labour Party.
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Fantastic interview. I have a lot of respect for Pedro Gonzalez - it takes a lot of courage and integrity to break out from a political movement that is so warped. Thank you to Know Your Enemy for making the space - a lot of helpful insights into the cravenness that is the Right today.
Really great @dissentmag.bsky.social piece on the use of public lands by my friend, @hiangelo.bsky.social. A must read!
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Join us in Brooklyn tomorrow for an event on our Socialism in the City issue, with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Nikhil Pal Singh, and Chris Maisano. dissentmagazine.org/blog/a-discu...
Policy debates around public lands point to larger unresolved questions about the nature and function of the public trust. What should we do with this national resource at a moment of major transition?
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Looking forward to this:
On 10 March, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I will be discussing our @dissentmag.bsky.social essay on "The demise of conflict studies" with @christinecheng.bsky.social at this @mybisa.bsky.social online seminar - register here:
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How have @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social first weeks as mayor been so far? Will there be free childcare or even socialism in New York? @dissentmag.bsky.social and @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social invite you to an exciting discussion!
New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam talk to writer Pedro L. Gonzalez about his break with MAGA and the New Right.
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Next Saturday, February 28, join us in Brooklyn for a conversation on our winter issue, Socialism in the City, with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian and Chris Maisano dissentmagazine.org/blog/a-discu...
My co-editor Natasha Lewis spoke with the wonderful Frederick Wiseman for @dissentmag.bsky.social in 2025 dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
If you want to read a good piece about foundations today you can read Claire Dunning on the Garland fund dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
There Is No Place for Us challenges the public perception of homelessness as a reflection of individual choices, but it also looks beyond the assumption that housing prices alone are driving the surge.
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Aims McGuinness on what Milwaukeeโs experience with โsewer socialismโ has to teach us in @dissentmag.bsky.social.
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Jesse Jackson's passing has reminded me of this @dissentmag.bsky.social piece that I cowrote with my dear friend Matt Stanley in 2019, ahead of the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries. I think it's aged fairly well. ๐๏ธ dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Jesse Jackson's 1988 campaign marks a historic breakthrough in American politics. It is the first time that a "social democratic" platform has been presented in the mainstream of American politics and attracted significant mass support. The journal- istic cliche was, and is, that Jackson's program is "extremist," vague, outrageously expensive. In fact, as a correspondent for the London Financial Times reported, only in Ronald Reagan's America could Jackson's eminently moderate and sensible ideas be seen as far out. Those ideas, on full employment, health, North-South and the like, are familiar to readers of Dissent, members of Democratic Social- ists of America, and the broad democratic left. They are, more or less, what we have been talking about during the past decade and in some cases the people who articulated them for Jackson came from our world.
His appeal to working people--he is the most pro-union candidate in recent memory- did not always translate into votes but won him very real respect even from many who cast their ballot for another candidate. In Iowa, it is clear that he had an appeal to farm families in small communities that saw few blacks. And, more predictably, he suc- ceeded very well with the new-class vote in the college towns and urban centers. Third, Jackson has broken some racial barriers. Let there be no mistake about it, there was a "backlash," particularly in some of the later primaries. But what is remarkable is that in every state Jackson significantly increased -and some- times doubled - his percentage of the white vote in 1984. When the campaign began, even though I supported Jackson I felt that the racism of the society would limit him much more than it did in fact. And one of the reasons why he succeeded in this area is that his social democratic class appeal reached across color lines, in some cases moving even former George Wallace voters.
Went back this morning and read @dissentmag.bsky.social's coverage of the Jackson campaign in 1988; I think it is Michael Harrington's "A Case for Jackson" that holds up the best dissentmagazine.org/article/a-ca...
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman died today at age 96. "At a moment when many of the institutions he documented are being decimated and our attention is divided," Natasha Lewis wrote last year, "Wisemanโs films are out of time and completely timely." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Trump has doubled down on long-standing efforts to diminish the capacity of states to deliver social goods and protection beyond federal limits, while infusing that austerity with the logic of retribution. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
The history of the Garland Fund shows the potential role philanthropy can play in moments of rising authoritarianismโand the tensions inherent in that role.
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For decades, national policies have compelled states to pare back eligibility and benefits for social programs. Under Trump, federal austerity has become a tool to punish political enemies.
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