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The United States Of ORGANIZING THE IVIES GRIEVING TRAYVON INSIDE TRUMP PAVILION JULY 2017 THE UNITED STATES OF How Trump has Crazyturned us into a nation of crackpots and conspiracy theorists CMYK WE’RE BULLISH ON COMFORT The Un-Sneaker™ goes to work. With leather-lined interior, padded collar and custom soles — the world’s most comfortable shoe is now dressed for the offi ce. Free shipping and returns. Order online or call 844.482.4800. PUB : New Republic Magazine 308110ryl01_BullChes_NewRepub DM Live: 7.5” x 10” Trim: 8” x 10.5” Bleed: 8.25” x 10.75” contents JULY 2017 UP FRONT 6 Blocking the Detectives 18 Firing Comey is Trump’s latest salvo in the war on oversight. BY LAURA RESTON 8 Trump the Union Buster For grad students fighting to unionize, time is short. BY MAX RIVLIN-NADLER 9 The Trump Tweetometer A highly precise quantitative analysis of last month’s presidential tweets. 11 Don’t Get Met—It Pays Did Trump use an executive order to aid a corporate backer? BY DAVID DAYEN 12 Life at Trump Pavilion A visit to the nursing home that bears the president’s name. BY MARY PILON COLUMNS 14 The Loyalty Freak Why Trump’s obsession with fealty is a political necessity. BY JOHN B. JUDIS 16 First Family LLC How Trump made an archaic institution even worse. BY ADELE M. STAN REVIEW 48 The Rise of the Thought Leader How the superrich have funded a new Trail of Fears class of intellectual. BY DAVID SESSIONS Forget Nixon. Trump is more like his hero Andrew 53 A Grief Observed Jackson, who ruled by fiat in a time of populist unrest. Memoirs of black mourning form a new literary genre. BY MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH BY KEVIN BAKER 56 Self-Made Woman Viewing Georgia O’Keefe through her personal style. BY RACHEL SYME 60 Invincible Reason 22 32 38 Czeslaw Milosz strove to transcend his The New One Meal a Day The Silence of troubled times. BY EDWARD HIRSCH 64 Nowhere Mag As Lake Chad vanishes Paranoia the Lambs Can Monocle’s globalist chic survive an and Boko Haram rises How Donald Trump has Evangelical churches are age of populism? BY KYLE CHAYKA turned us into a nation of in western Africa, seven being hit by widespread crackpots and conspiracy million people are on accusations of sexual 68 Backstory theorists—on the left as the brink of starvation. abuse. Are they covering PHOTOGRAPH BY GRISELDA SAN MARTIN well as the right. TEXT BY LISA PALMER up a Catholic-size scandal? PHOTOGRAPHS BY GETTY / BY COLIN DICKEY BY KATHRYN JOYCE POETRY CHRIS DE BODE AFP / 63 Text Cloud Anthology BY KAZIM ALI MANDEL NGAN MANDEL COVER ILLUSTRATION BY ANDRÉ CARRILHO JULY 2017 | 1 contributors Editor in Chief Kevin Baker is a novelist, historian, and journalist. The author of Win McCormack Dreamland and Paradise Alley, he was awarded a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship for The Invention of Paradise, a forthcoming history of the Editor United States between the world wars. TRAIL OF FEARS, P. 18 Eric Bates Chris de Bode is an Amsterdam-based photographer and film director Literary Editor Digital Director who has reported from more than 70 countries. Earlier this year, he Laura Marsh Mindy Kay Bricker traveled to Cameroon with the British Red Cross to document the crisis in Features Directors Executive Editor Sasha Belenky Ryan Kearney the Lake Chad region, where climate change and the rise of Boko Haram Theodore Ross Deputy Editor have driven millions to the brink of starvation. ONE MEAL A DAY, P. 32 Politics Editor Ryu Spaeth Bob Moser Colin Dickey is the author of Ghostland, Afterlives of the Saints, and The Social Media Editor Managing Editor Sarah Jones Unidentified, a forthcoming book about the history of conspiracy theories Laura Reston Senior Editors and what they say about our modern moment. “Most of us cling to Assistant Editor Brian Beutler conspiracy theories not because we’re gullible, but because they ofer Moira Donegan Jeet Heer psychological reassurance,” he says. “Which can be a powerful thing in News Editor Design Director Alex Shephard times of confusion and uncertainty.” THE NEW PARANOIA, P. 22 Siung Tjia Staff Writers Photo Director Edward Hirsch is a poet and critic. The president of the John Simon Emily Atkin Stephanie Heimann Clio Chang Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he is the author of nine books of Production Manager Josephine Livingstone Graham Vyse poems, including The Living Fire and Gabriel: A Poem. Steph Tan INVINCIBLE REASON, P. 60 Poetry Editor Contributing Editors Cathy Park Hong Kathryn Joyce is a contributing editor at the new republic and the James Burnett, Alexander Chee, Ben Crair, Michelle Dean, Reporter-Researchers author of The Child Catchers and Quiverfull. She was struck by how the Siddhartha Deb, Michael Lovia Gyarkye abuse sufered by Kim James and other children has gone virtually Eric Dyson, Paul Ford, Ted Sukjong Hong Genoways, William Giraldi, Juliet Kleber unnoticed outside of conservative missionary circles. “It’s an obscure Dana Goldstein, Kathryn Joyce, Suki Kim, Maria Konnikova, corner of fundamentalism,” she says, “but it sheds important light on how Interns Corby Kummer, Michelle Legro, abuse continues to be dealt with in the sprawling world of conservative Jen Percy, Jamil Smith, Eric Armstrong Graeme Wood, Robert Wright Sagari Shetty evangelicalism.” THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, P. 38 John B. Judis is the author of The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics. He is an editor at Director of Marketing Associate Advertising and Revenue Director large at Talking Points Memo and a former senior editor at the new Evelyn Frison Shawn Awan THE LOYALTY FREAK, P. 14 republic. Audience and Controller Partnership Manager David Myer Lisa Palmer is a senior fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Eliza Fish Office Manager, NY Synthesis Center, a research organization focused on science and Media Relations Manager Tori Campbell scholarship at the interface of human and ecological systems. She is the Steph Leke author of Hot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Associate Publisher Face of Climate Change. ONE MEAL A DAY, P. 32 Art Stupar Mary Pilon is the author of The Monopolists and the forthcoming The Publisher Hamilton Fish Kevin Show. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New York Times. LIFE AT TRUMP PAVILION, P. 12 David Sessions is a doctoral student in modern European history at Published by Lake Avenue Publishing 1 Union Square West, Boston College and a visiting student at the École Normale Supérieure in New York, NY 10003 Paris. He is a former editor at The Daily Beast, and his writing has appeared President in Jacobin and Newsweek. THE RISE OF THE THOUGHT LEADER, P. 48 Win McCormack Mychal Denzel Smith is the New York Times best-selling author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, and a 2017 naacp Image For subscription inquiries or problems call (800) 827-1289 Award nominee. A GRIEF OBSERVED, P. 53 For reprints and licensing visit www.TNRreprints.com Adele M. Stan is a columnist for The American Prospect and winner of the 2017 Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism. 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In 1952, a cover story entitled “who is richard nixon?” blasted him as “a tool of the great corporations.” John Osborne, the magazine’s White House correspondent, became a defender of the president—reportedly after Nixon, posing as an ordinary reader, personally drafted a letter to shame Osborne into providing favorable coverage. ✯ It’s impossible to read these stories today without thinking of Trump. The deep, wounded insecurity. The obsession with bad press. The coddling advisers. The talent for repackaging complex ideas as cheap slogans. America, it’s clear, has seen this president before. And the last time, we sent him packing. a Nixon, like Trump, translated all values into “saleability.” Irving Howe MAY 7, 1956 The Editors OCTOBER 22, 1956 Reading through Nixon’s speeches, it Nixon leaves many people uneasy, and not all of them are Democrats. Millions of becomes clear that for him neither ideas words have been written trying to explain why.
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