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THE ROAD TO FASCISM JULIAN BOND, RADICAL TIFFANY CABÁN ROBERT GREENE II AUGUST 24/31, 2020 Man and An Beastunusual experiment in rewilding reveals that the marriage between humans and animals needs a lot of work. VALENTINE FAURE THENATION.COM Version 01-08-2020 SURGE AT THE ICU COLLEEN M. FARRELL J.M. COETZEE’S STATES OF EXILE 2 The Nation. SIDDHARTHA DEB Join the conversation, JULY 27/AUGUST 3, 2020 HOW TO every Thursday, DEFINE A on the Start Making PLAGUE The way we talk about Letters contagion matters. It @thenation.com shapes how our society Sense podcast. responds—and how many of us will survive. SONIA SHAH THENATION.COM An Ounce of Prevention it can end is safe and legal abortion. Kudos to Sonia Shah [“How to Define Abortions would continue, at great a Plague,” July 27/August 3] for point costs to women. Andy Oram ing out the need to tell a new story Color-Blind Reporting about the coronavirus. As she notes, germ theory doesn’t go far enough. 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BLOW SHERROD BROWN well to adopt a broader perspective on mentioned that he has been at the NOAM CHOMSKY GAIL COLLINS illness using the model of integrated forefront of racial justice longer than MIKE DAVIS ELIZABETH DREW pest management, in which the first she has been alive. She would have approach to dealing with insects in a mentioned that he is supported by BARBARA EHRENREICH progressive heroes like Representative DANIEL ELLSBERG FRANCES building is not to pull out a poisonous spray but to remove food and water Ayanna Pressley and that he traveled FITZGERALD ERIC FONER sources and seal cracks that allow bugs the country for Senator Elizabeth War THOMAS FRANK HENRY LOUIS to enter. Similar to controlling weeds, ren to help sell her bold criminal justice GATES JR. MICHELLE GOLDBERG IPM focuses on creating healthy turf reform proposal. 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It was a clumsy effort to drive O’DONNELL LAURA POITRAS say, “The other four conservatives on a narrative about Kennedy at the ex pense of a Black man’s lived experience KATHA POLLITT ROBERT the court are ideologically dedicated to ending abortion by any means and credibility. REICH JOY REID FRANK RICH necessary,” you ignore that the Su Not for nothing, Kennedy is ARUNDHATI ROY BERNIE preme Court cannot end abortion; all (continued on page 26) SANDERS ANNA DEAVERE The Nation (ISSN 00278378) is published 30 times a year (four issues in February; three issues in SMITH EDWARD SNOWDEN March, April, June, and November; and two issues in January, May, July, August, September, October, REBECCA SOLNIT MARGARET and December) by The Nation Company, LLC © 2020 in the USA by The Nation Company, LLC, 520 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018; (212) 2095400. Washington Bureau: Suite 308, 110 Maryland TALBOT CALVIN TRILLIN Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20002; (202) 5462239. 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POSTMAS TER: Send address changes to The Nation, PO Box 8505, Big Sandy, TX 757558505. Printed in the USA. UPFRONT 3 100 Years of Suffrage The Nation. Joan Walsh since 1865 4 Road to Fascism Tiffany Cabán 5 Q&A: Barbara Lee 8 Biden, Just Say Yes on M4A! D.D. Guttenplan 38 Portraits of a 100 Years of Suffrage Pandemic Steve Brodner COLUMNS nce upon a time, many American women looked forward 6 The Liberal Media Journalists Rise Up to a euphoric 100th anniversary celebration of the 19th Eric Alterman 10 Mic Drop Amend ment, which belatedly granted us the vote, to be That Suburban led this month by the nation’s first woman president. We Lifestyle Dream Kali Holloway still celebrate, though that much-anticipated president lost to a confessed O 11 Deadline Poet sexual predator whose administration is dedicated to Presidential Diagnosis rolling back women’s rights. As I write, we are also er early contender, Senator Elizabeth Warren, was a Calvin Trillin preparing to celebrate the Democratic Party’s second policy wonk who, we were warned, would serve her nomination of a woman for vice president, though I own agenda and not necessarily Biden’s. Features don’t know who she is yet. (Readers probably will Let’s not criticize our male competitors, either, 12 Man and Beast when they read this.) But we know that Joe Biden, as Senator Kamala Harris did running against Biden Valentine Faure In the Netherlands an who might have skipped a third run for president last year—though he did the same running against experimental nature reserve to back one of the four women senators who ran in Barack Obama in 2008 (the year Biden became his has become a battleground 2020, promised to pick a female running mate before running mate). Despite that history, former senator for two approaches to he sealed the nomination—a consolation prize of Chris Dodd, who is helping Biden with the VP search protecting wildlife. sorts for the largest bloc of American voters. (and who also ran against Obama, as well as Biden), 18 It’s Time to Abolish We will, of course, accept that conso- was offended by Harris’s lack of “remorse” Nursing Homes lation prize and go forth to save Amer- for critiquing Biden’s anti- busing stance in Sara Luterman COMMENT If three out of four ican democracy, as women voters have one of the primary debates. Americans want to spend been doing since Donald Trump’s elec- That appeared to create an opening their final years at home, tion shocked many of us (too many of for former national security adviser Su- why do so many of us end us, especially white women) into pas- san Rice, who is also Black and worked up in institutional care? sionate activism almost four years ago. closely with Biden in the Obama admin- 22 A Thick Blue Fog And not just activism: An unprecedented istration. But some critics lament that ML Kejera number of women ran for and won of- the former diplomat has sharp elbows, Momodou Lamin Sisay fices around the country, inspired by the another thing women should avoid. was killed during a traffic stop in Georgia. Women’s Marches that heralded the rise The issues with Harris and Rice Only the police know of a real resistance. led Dodd and others to begin pushing California what really happened. Whomever Biden chooses, it will be a victory for Representative Karen Bass, a former state House women, though bittersweet (especially if his choice is speaker, with some suggesting she is a kind of mul- Books & the Arts a centrist). If a woman is ever to occupy the Oval Of- ticultural Goldilocks: Black but not too competitive 27 In the Fire of Activism fice, it seems, even 100 years after we won the vote, or abrasive or wonky. Just right to be No. 2. Which Robert Greene II even after we powered the anti-Trump resistance, is insulting to the assertive, confident Bass. By the 32 The Love Poems she will have to spend some time directly appren- end of the vetting period, it seemed the 11th com- of Virginia (poem) ticing to a man, living at a safe distance from actual mandment of women’s politics, 100 years after we Scott Challener power at the Naval Observatory.