June 13/20, 2022, Issue

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Feature

Fear & Loathing in San Francisco: How Chesa Boudin Got Blamed

In this reputedly progressive city, tech and real estate money has bankrolled a centrist backlash.
Christopher D. Cook
What This Later-Abortion Story Tells Us About a Post-“Roe” Future

The number of people seeking later abortions is undoubtedly about to increase, and our medical system is unprepared to care for them.
Garnet Henderson
Paul LePage Is Back!

He called himself “Trump before Trump.” Now, he wants to stage a comeback.
Sasha Abramsky

Editorial

The Supreme Court Is Broken. How Do We Fix It?

Ryan Doerfler argues that real change requires us to strip the court of its authority while Elie Mystal writes that the best approach is to flood the court with more justices.
Ryan Doerfler and Elie Mystal
The DCCC and the DSCC Are Not On Our Side

We won’t come close to the changes this country desperately needs unless progressives transform the Democratic Party from within.
Robert L. Borosage
The Buffalo Attack Is Part of a Long History of Racial Terror

How does a system that devalues Black lives expect the members of society to value them?
India Walton for The Nation
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Column

Waging Proxy War in Ukraine Won’t Save Us From Ourselves

The policing of public opinion over Ukraine goes to extremes unimagined during the fight against Hitler.
David Bromwich
The Anti-Abortion Movement Weaponizes Women Against Women

Anti-abortion women perpetuate the idea that women’s lives are about deference and self-sacrifice. But women must help one another see ourselves as human first.
Nicole Nehrig
The Next Move

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

The Art of Vivian Maier

Her photography made its subject everyday life, but her life makes us ask: Who gets to be an artist?
Sarah Jaffe
Hubert Harrison, Giant of Harlem Radicalism

A two-volume biography tracks the life and times of one of Harlem’s leading socialists.
Robert Greene II
The History Lessons of “My Brilliant Friend”

The third season of the TV adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s multi-part novel dives into the tantalizing and heartbreaking story of Italy during the Years of Lead.
Katherine Hill
Skeletons

Deborah Landau
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