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2024年10月10日 · Benjamin Ross and Joseph Cortright October 10, 2024. Government highway agencies have enabled the blatant falsification of traffic model results. As a result, the United States wastes billions on road expansions that fail to cure congestion and make it harder to get around without a car.
Why Free College Is Necessary - Dissent Magazine
Why Free College Is Necessary. Higher education can’t solve inequality, but the debate about free college tuition does something extremely valuable. It reintroduces the concept of public good to education discourse. Tressie McMillan Cottom ▪ Fall 2015. Student debt activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2014 (Light ...
Liberal or Social Democrat? - Dissent Magazine
There is another quip, the source of which I don’t know: a social democrat is a socialist who compromised with reality, whereas a liberal is an anarchist who compromised with reality. Liberals moved from defending free trade against the yoke of privileged protectionism in the nineteenth century, to promoting the active interference of ...
How Did Gandhi Win? Lessons from the Salt March
2014年10月10日 · Lessons from the Salt March. Gandhi’s demands were ridiculed and his settlement with the British disappointed many. But the Salt March was a key symbolic win that spurred India’s independence movement toward victory. Mark Engler and Paul Engler October 10, 2014. Cross-posted from Waging Nonviolence. History remembers Mohandas Gandhi’s ...
Community College: The Great Equalizer? - Dissent Magazine
We were proud to publish a number of his essays and to work with him in 2011 on a special section he co-edited for Dissent on “Re-imagining Education Reform.” —The Editors. In the American consciousness, education is, in Horace Mann’s words, the “great equalizer” of class differences. Through schooling, students can ascend the ...
Socialism from Above: Assessing the Cuban Experience
Cuban socialism has been a “socialism from above.”. Its features include supremacy of central power, the priority of the “official” truth, and limited possibilities for self-organization—qualities that have varied in importance in the post-revolutionary period, but that are demonstrably connected with one another.
The New Black Internationalism - Dissent Magazine
The internationalism Du Bois advanced never fully dissipated. Even after the end of the Black Power era, forms of internationalism persisted. Black activists and intellectuals in the United States stood in solidarity with South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement, in opposition to the Reagan administration’s interventions in Central America, and in defense of Palestinian liberation.
What It Means to Be Liberal - Dissent Magazine
Michael Walzer ▪ Spring 2020 The construction of the Statue of Liberty in Paris (Branger/Roger Viollet via Getty Images) . Is liberalism an “ism” like all the other “isms”? I think it once was. In the nineteenth century and for some years in the twentieth, liberalism was an encompassing ideology: free markets, free trade, free speech, open …
The Economy During Wartime - Dissent Magazine
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, 392 pp. During the Second World War, the United States had a centrally planned economy. Strategic resources were produced in quantities set in Washington, and allocated among end users by the public officials sitting on the War Production Board. Key prices and wages were administered, not left to markets.
Feminist Organizing After the Women’s March: Lessons from the …
Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler January 25, 2017. At the Women's Strike for Equality, August 26, 1970 (She's Beautiful When She's Angry / handout) An earlier version of this article appeared at Waging Nonviolence. Fifty years ago, feminist organizing in the United States entered a vibrant new phase of activity.