The Chinese government has rebuffed bold consumption stimulus policy. But boosting domestic household spending is precisely ...

Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it. Zoë Hu ▪ ...

At the end of last year, a friend and I sat down to watch the 2002 Hugh Grant vehicle About a Boy. Grant’s character is kind of a loser, one who does nothing all day but live off the royalties of a ...

W.W. Norton, 2024, 176 pp. Over the past eight years, a series of major document leaks has shone a spotlight on tax havens and their users. The Panama Papers, made up of 11.5 million documents from ...

Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same. Gabriel Winant ▪ November 8, 2024 A campaign bus parked near an empty field after Kamala ...

After decades of relative stagnation, American housing policy is now several years into a period of radical change and experimentation. In California, where I am policy director for the state-level ...

Dissent is a magazine of politics and ideas published in print three times a year. Founded by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser in 1954, it quickly established itself as one of America’s leading ...

The Measure ULA campaign shows how a housing-labor coalition can transform the political landscape, even in the face of staunch special interest reaction. Peter Dreier ▪ Winter 2025 Mansions in ...

Henry Holt and Co., 2023, 400 pp. Amid the pandemic lockdowns and mass protests of 2020, political figures on both the right and left invoked the American suburban ideal. On the campaign trail, Donald ...

With every extreme weather event, housing is damaged and belongings are lost. Insurance is supposed to be the safety net that helps people to recover and restart their lives. But as major disasters ...

The chances for durable peace may depend on Trump’s whims. Joshua Leifer ▪ January 23, 2025 A view of the Gaza Strip from Israel on January 19 (Amir Levy/Getty Images) On Sunday, after a delay ...

Read responses to this article by Dustin Guastella and Mark Levinson here. The time has come to abandon a political proposal that the left has advanced in Europe and the United States for almost 200 ...