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Partial Readings: The Violence We Can, and Can’t, Prevent
It’s been a grim week. Whether it was the bombing at the Boston marathon or the explosion of a fertilizer plant in small-town Texas, the week’s events have instilled, for many in the U.S., a renewed...
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Partial Readings: Collapsing Factories and the “End Death Traps” Tour
As the death toll of Wednesday’s garment factory collapse in Savar, Bangladesh surpasses 320, the incident has become the most lethal disaster in garment industry history, one of the worst...
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Partial Readings: Obama’s Tepid New Team, Berlusconi and Mussolini, Politics...
With Chuck Hagel confirmed as Secretary of Defense after a 58-41 vote on Tuesday—the tightest confirmation vote ever for a Pentagon chief, split almost exactly along partisan lines—the hubbub over...
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Partial Readings: The Tar Sands Blockade, Indestructible Chávez, Freelancing...
The decision to let this pipeline come through America is the most fateful decision you will ever make, Mr. President. It would be like jabbing a dirty needle into this country from Canada. It would be...
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Partial Readings: Kimani Gray and Police Violence
Last Saturday, two undercover police officers in an unmarked car approached a teenager walking down the street in his Brooklyn neighborhood of East Flatbush after he broke off from a group of friends....
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Partial Readings: The Future of American Conservatism
If there’s one thing that brings out the top ten–list impulse in progressive journalists, it’s the rantings of conservatives. By standing up for, say, rape and slavery in spite of the damage they risk...
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Partial Readings: Monsanto’s Revolving Door
In last week’s Partial Readings, I suggested that conservatives and other corporate allies in Washington are most successful when they advance regressive laws and dismember progressive ones behind the...
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Partial Readings: May Day, Twenty-First–Century Marx, the Subaltern Studies Spat
Before taking to the streets this May Day, Dissent celebrated by surveying a year’s worth of highlights for organized labor. Picking up where we left off, let’s take a look at how May Day shaped up...
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Partial Readings: The Rule of Law
Last Thursday, in a major policy speech at the National Defense University, President Obama unveiled the legal scaffold his Department of Justice has been erecting, one piece at a time, around the...
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Partial Readings: Buddhists, Neo-Fascists, and Islamophobia
The sickening murder of a British soldier in the London district of Woolwich last week has unleashed a surge of Islamophobia across the pond that makes U.S. reactions to the Boston bombings look tame....
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