Dissent magazine has overhauled its website, and it's well worth a visit. And in case you didn't know:
In the early 1950s, a small group of independent-minded radicals launched a quarterly magazine called Dissent. They were dissenting from the McCarthyite mood in America. They were dissenting from the conformism of American intellectuals. And they were dissenting from the admiration for communist totalitarianism that was widespread on the left. In the words of Irving Howe, who edited the magazine until his death in 1993, they "wanted to speak for the spirit of democratic utopianism that runs like a bright thread through America's intellectual life."
"Dissent," says the philosopher Richard Rorty, "is the most useful political magazine on the U.S. left." Recent issues have featured the work of Shlomo Avineri, Seyla Benhabib, Paul Berman, Sheri Berman, David Bromwich, Todd Gitlin, Michael Ignatieff, Michael Kazin, Lucy Komisar, Gordon Lafer, Kanan Makiya, George Packer, Samantha Power, Jim Sleeper, Michael Tomasky, and Ellen Willis.