Public Housing: Tenants and Troubles Public Housing: Tenants and Troubles Mike Miller and Carl Werthman ▪ Summer 1961. By June 30, 1960, the New York City Housing Authority had become the ...

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 ...

Manuel Pastor ▪ June 13, 2025 Faith leaders pray in front of National Guard officers at a protest in Los Angeles on June 10, 2025. (Courtesy of Joseph Tomás McKellar) Los Angeles is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Max Fraser: Films about African-American characters and communities—especially those that take place in the present rather than the historical past—rarely seem to adopt a rural framing.Why was that ...

Basic Books, 2020, 528 pp. The Clint Eastwood Western The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), a genre-defining fantasy of anti-government violence, finds redemption for the failed ideas of the white South in ...

Perry’s South to America is inspired by Albert L. Murray’s genre-bending travelogue and poetical memoir, South to a Very Old Place.Like Murray, Perry moves between autobiography, literary criticism, ...