What we measured
We loaded dissentmagazine.org in a real browser, accepted the cookie banner, and scored what came back. Every number below is on a 0–10 scale where 10 is best.
- Ad restraint
- 10
- Design
- 8
- Reach
- 6
- Editorial
- 8
- Signal-to-noise
- 7
- Access
- 6
- Cadence
- 7
- Independence
- 9
Ad entities counted on the homepage after accepting the cookie banner
Clutter, hierarchy, typography and whitespace, scored from our screenshot
Tranco rank for the registrable domain, capped where the feed is a section
Curated judgement of the writing, not a measurement
How much of the feed is the thing you subscribed for
How much is readable without a paywall or a login
Whether it publishes often enough to be worth a slot
Ownership, and how much it constrains what gets covered
What it looks like
Our screenshot of dissentmagazine.org, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from Dissent
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- Belongs to All of Us
- The SpaceX Sham
- Know Your Enemy: Archaeology and Annexation in Palestine
- Who Owns American History?
- Public Education and the Long Tax Revolt
- Know Your Enemy: Gerontocracy in America
- Fire Sale
- Ten Weeks Under Occupation
- The Court vs. Democracy
- The Uses and Abuses of the “Worst of the Worst”
- Know Your Enemy: Lincoln at Gettysburg
- What to Eugene Debs Was the Fourth of July?
- The Diva and the Writer
- New Declarations
- The New York Left’s Super Tuesday
Where it sits in Ideas & Longform
- #19 Noema Magazine77.5
- #20 The Convivial Society77.5
- #21 Dissent77
- #22 Farnam Street77
- #23 The Browser77