DISSENT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘America At 250’

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Call It the End

Introducing our Summer 2026 issue on America at 250. Patrick Iber

The American Revolution in Global Retreat

More so than at any point in the last century, U.S. independence now seems like a parochial affair. Aziz Rana

Rot and Reform

An interview with David Bateman and Julie C. Suk on the state of American democracy in 2026. Patrick Iber, David Bateman and Julie C. Suk

New Declarations

By invoking the American Revolution, twentieth-century anticolonial figures connected their project with the movement for civil rights in the United States. Adom Getachew