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August 17-24, 2015 issue

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Editorial

Donald Trump speaks before a crowd of supporters.

Why Donald Trump Is Winning

No candidate more shamelessly caters to the conservative paranoid style than “The Donald.”

E.L. Doctorow

So Long, E.L. Doctorow, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh

You were a friend, a supporter of The Nation, and one of America’s great novelists.

How the Rich Can Keep Their Homes, Businesses, Artwork, and Wealth Tax-Free—Forever

Dynasty trusts enable the wealthy to control their assets even beyond the grave.

Mayor Bill de Blasio visits a school

New York’s Education ‘Reform’ Movement Keeps Racking Up Victories; Here’s How the Mayor Can Fight Back

Bill de Blasio needs to offer more than universal pre-K—he needs to offer a vision.

Jon Stewart

Why I’m Going to Miss Jon Stewart

And how will we watch the GOP debates without him?

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Letters

Letters From the August 17-24, 2015, Issue

Bad weather, useful idiots, the oily truth, telling privilege…

Feature

Ferlinghetti in June

Writing Across the Landscape collects the poet’s travel diaries—which, he says, “may pass as news stories filed by a reporter from Outer Space.”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Get Ready for Scott Walker… and the Ruthless Politics of Walkerism

For the presidential candidate from Wisconsin, politics is a win-at-any-cost competition for power.

How the 2000 Election in Florida Led to a New Wave of Voter Disenfranchisement

A botched voter purge prevented thousands from voting—and empowered a new generation of voting-rights critics.

Books & the Arts

at the estuary

Violette Verdy in George Balanchine's Jewels, 1967.

Elements of Style

The legendary Balanchine dancer Violette Verdy embodies the alchemy that turns music into meaning.

Chucky Taylor

Chucky Taylor, Liberia’s Other Monster

The fate of Liberia was ensnared by uniquely American pathologies.

Paul Beatty (credit: Hannah Assouline)

Paul Beatty’s Savage Satire

The Sellout takes aim at black middle-class foibles and fantasies.

The Virtues of Difficult Fiction

If novels aren’t worthy challenges, we have no reason to linger in their pages.

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