The Candlelight Revolution represents in some ways an alternative to the region’s potentially cataclysmic violence. The perils of any war in Korea are clear; the nightmare of nuclear warfare has ...

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Leta Hong Fincher ▪ Fall 2016 Li Maizi (left) takes part in a 2012 protest against domestic violence in Beijing. Photo courtesy of Media Monitor for Women Network. When Chinese police detained ...

Ross Perlin is co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance. His latest book is Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York.. Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s ...

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ▪ Fall 2018 Richard Nixon, HUD Secretary Romney, and D.C. Mayor Washington tour a neighborhood damaged by riots after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. (Wally McNamee ...

Editors ▪ June 12, 2025 . Join Dissent at Book Culture on Thursday, July 10 at 7 p.m. for a discussion about Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today, ...

Editors ▪ June 4, 2025 . As major climate disasters increase in frequency across the country, homeowners and renters are faced with new dilemmas about how to protect themselves and their ...

Nicolás Medina Mora ▪ June 10, 2025 Map of the Americas by Gerardus Mercator (Historical Picture Archive/Corbis via Getty Images) . America, América by Greg Grandin Penguin Press, 2025, 768 pp.

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ June 3, 2025 Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act (PhotoQuest/Getty Images) . Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by ...

Suzanne Schneider ▪ Spring 2024 Conservative legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich testifies at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem ...

Alice Quach and Victor Tan Chen ▪ Fall 2021 College students in March 2020 protesting a mandatory order to evacuate campus dorms (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) . When the pandemic struck last year ...