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The Fall 2026 issue of Dissent on technology, "Artificial Futures," is out now. Everything is a wager these days. Before our eyes, however, a collective gamble of more epic proportions has begun to take shape.
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ALT Cover of Dissent magazine Fall 2026 issue titled "Artificial Futures," featuring a person using a laptop and sitting on blocks as they fall away.
ALT Back cover of the Fall 2026 issue of Dissent titled "Artificial Futures."
Americans aren’t buying the claims of data centers’ benefits. Seven in ten oppose one being built near where they live, with 55 percent strongly opposed.
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The federal occupation of Minnesota must be understood as an assault not only on the people of the state but also on fundamental democratic principles of due process, equal protection, and rule of law.
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Given their success in proving that a better media industry is possible, media co-ops are well positioned to lead the charge for transformative policy. What would a New Deal for journalism look like?
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The repeated failure of the Trump regime to prosecute its enemies has perhaps muted the alarm with which the news about Ilhan Omar’s denaturalization case ought to be greeted.
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Instead of encouraging truly representative and democratic processes by which the Palestinians can finally choose what happens to their future, we instead have a rushed process where Palestinians are disempowered further.
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Psychedelics, once the sacrament of the hippie counterculture, are now being ushered into the heart of the techno-futurist vision of a post-human world. What explains this shift?
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Although it has recently held municipal elections, the Palestinian Authority has avoided legislative and presidential elections in the territories for the last twenty years—done so largely with the support of the international community.
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How to sum up a body of work across painting, criticism, novels, polemic, poetry, essays, plays, and film? John Berger himself struggled with this question, eventually landing on a not entirely convincing label of the “storyteller.”
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Instead of allowing Palestinians to vote for their next president, the international community threw its weight behind this undemocratic process.
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“Ways of Seeing” was nearly impossible to see for decades after its initial broadcast; today, it is the chief entry point into John Berger’s oeuvre, watched freely by hundreds of thousands on YouTube.
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Already at the frontlines of the cancer-causing petrochemical industry, Louisiana now faces a new wave of deadly pollution from the data center boom. dissentmagazine.org/online_a…
Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg purchased a $170 million estate near Miami—complete with nine bedrooms, eleven full bathrooms, and a 1,500-gallon aquarium—in a private enclave colloquially called “Billionaire Bunker."
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Throughout the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE franchise, saving the world is a theatrical production. DIGGER, with Tom Cruise playing the title role, similarly delights in its own theatricality.
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As we approach what would be John Berger’s hundredth birthday, why does much of his work still feel so urgent?
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Will there ever be a justice at last? Perhaps the necessity of art is to convince us that there could be.
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Since the advent of portable camcorders, documentarians have, paradoxically, sought to capture the unmediated truth on camera. PRIMETIME allows Lance Oppenheim to grapple with questions of documentary ethics while using the freedoms of fiction.
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As we approach what would be John Berger’s hundredth birthday, why does much of his work still feel so urgent?
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Elon Musk has often been accused of being a showman, the P.T. Barnum of the tech world. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff agree, but they see this as a business strategy, not an incidental feature of Musk’s politics or personality.
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John Berger’s shadow, it seems, has only lengthened with his passing. Today, the painter, critic, documentarian, and writer is practically ubiquitous.
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Epstein’s gone, but we’re stuck with a class of people with effectively infinite resources that they can devote to whatever they want—whether it’s undermining democracy, crushing unions, or abusing children.
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