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Cynthia Nixon for Governor KATHA POLLITT ON LOVE AND ABORTION CYNTHIA IS SHE READY NIXON FOR FOR THE GOVERNOR SPOTLIGHT? THE EDITORS JOAN WALSH JULY 2/9, 2018 THENATION.COM Perfect Choice HD Ultra™ is simple to use, hard to see and easy to afford… Invention of the Year FREE Shipping PERSONAL SOUND AMPLIFICATION PRODUCT (PSAP) limited IT’S NOT A HEARING AID time offer If you are one of the 48 million TM Understand what Americans suffering from hearing Perfect Choice HD Ultra people are saying... loss, we have great news for you. is perfect for... An innovative team of doctors and >"#6%*+0)!>'56#74#065 the irst time engineers have teamed up to create >+00'42#46+'5>'%674'5 a truly revolutionary personal sound >76&114%108'45#6+105>'4/105 amplifier. It’s not a hearing aid– …and other times where you those require trips to the audiologist, hearing tests and can cost as much need to turn up the volume as $5,000. 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Not only has An- Calvin Trillin E Features drew Cuomo publicly reconsidered his longtime opposi- tion to legalizing marijuana and issued an executive order restoring voting 12 Is Cynthia Nixon Ready for the Spotlight? rights to felons who have been released on parole, he Joan Walsh also spoke out against the wave of federal immigra- She doesn’t have a record of government service, Some New Yorkers tion raids across the state. After first refusing to en- and there’s no question that her celebrity is central want more in the way dorse a $19 billion plan to overhaul New York City’s to her ability to challenge Cuomo. But we live in a of policy detail from the crumbling subways, the governor now supports it. world where money talks, and Cuomo’s $30 million gubernatorial challenger. Somewhere under a sofa in Albany, he also found war chest—hardly any of it from small donors—has 18 Firestarter: Making a spare $250 million to begin to address New York frightened off most challengers. The celebrity that Impeachment a City’s ongoing public-housing emergency. Thanks Nixon earned from her career as an actor is the capital Voting Issue Mark Hertsgaard to the “Cynthia effect,” Cuomo has even managed that makes her run not only possible, but viable. That Billionaire Tom Steyer to find the political muscle to broker an end to the she has long chosen to use her fame to lift up the wants to make removing Independent Democratic Conference, a movements for public education, LGBTQ Trump a hot topic this November. breakaway faction of state senators who EDITORIAL rights, renewable energy, and housing jus- caucused with the Republicans, stymieing tice speaks to her character. She may not 22 Democrats Need to progressive legislation. have as much executive experience as her Say a Farewell to Arms Just as he did in response to Zephyr opponent, but as someone who grew up Joe Cirincione and Teachout’s challenge four years ago, when in a one-bedroom, five-story walk-up as Guy T. Saperstein The party shouldn’t be he changed his mind on fracking and the daughter of a single mother, was edu- afraid of opposing excessive enacted a $15 state minimum wage, New cated in New York City’s public schools, defense spending. York’s mercurial governor is once again has worked continuously since the age 24 Second and Third running to his left. Cynthia Nixon de- of 12, and has paid dues to four different Thoughts on Tom Wolfe serves credit for that, and for finally mak- unions, Nixon has the life experience to be Jamie Bernstein ing the shame of New York’s public schools—and a governor of and for the people. If elected, she won’t How the pioneering the scandalous failure to address the savage inequal- be beholden to the entrenched interests and political journalist’s acid prose ity in resources between some of the most lavishly machines that dominate state government. We can burned a prominent family. funded districts in the country and many of the most surely count on her to shake up business as usual. Books & deprived—into an urgent issue. She deserves credit By contrast, Andrew Cuomo has consistently dis- the Arts for putting forward bold, progressive, commonsense appointed, often standing in the way of vital reforms. 27 Artificial Persons positions on universal health care, public housing, He’s been a cheerleader for charter schools, a foe of David Cole education, renewable energy, rent protection, and campaign-finance reform, and the author of a series of mass transportation—not just in New York City but austerity measures that balanced the state’s budget on 31 Equipment for Living Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow across the state, from Buffalo to Long Island. She the backs of public servants and the poor rather than also deserves credit for her courage in taking on raising taxes on New York’s burgeoning millionaire 35 Separate and Unequal Robert Greene one of the most powerful men in the country and a class. Far from confronting the culture of corruption notorious holder of grudges. that has long infected Albany, Cuomo has embraced But if you’re a voter in New York State, does she it, most notably by deciding to abolish the Moreland VOLUME 306, NUMBER 19, deserve your support? The rap on Nixon, spread in Commission before it could finish its investigation. July 2/9, 2018 part by the governor’s sound machine, is that she’s an He let Republicans in the State Senate draw their own The digital version of this issue is available to all subscribers June 7 unqualified lightweight, a politically correct, liberal district lines and readily accepted contributions from at TheNation.com. TV star gaining attention simply because of her ce- the Koch brothers and other GOP mega-donors. Cover photo of Cynthia Nixon lebrity. It’s true that Nixon is not a career politician. At the same time, Cuomo has waged war not by AUGUST / Ryan Pfluger. 4 The Nation. July 2/9, 2018 BY THE only on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, but also on case, were evidence of government “hostility” to Phillips’s NUMBERS many progressive movements in the state, most recently religion. Without those particular facts, a different case in his efforts to defund and destroy the Working Families could lead to a different result. Party. Sadly, his threats against unions, many of which But while the decision isn’t a sweeping exemption from have endorsed him, have been more effective. But while antidiscrimination laws, it’s hardly a harmless bump on the we can understand why New York’s labor leaders might road to equality. Less noticed, but no less crucial to Phillips feel the need to bend before the governor’s power, we and his allies, was how assiduously Justice Kennedy labored hope rank-and-file members recognize that a politician to find a government “hostility” to religion.
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