Indholdsfortegnelse for October 24, 2016 i The Nation

@thenation.com Not So Gurley After All While I do not take issue with Madeleine Schwartz’s image of Helen Gurley Brown in her review of two recent biographies of Cosmopolitan’s most famous editor [“Notes From Many Years,” Sept. 26/Oct. 3], her characterizations of the magazine ignore something: Among the articles about attracting men and sex, one could find pieces that dealt with other issues affecting women’s lives. I know because, in the 1970s, I wrote them: the story of an adoptee’s long, arduous search to find her birth mother and the fallout from her adoptive parents; a long piece (in blank verse, no less) about the breakup of my first marriage, with no happy ending in sight; and a serious discussion of the effect of premenstrual hormones. Woman’s Day had rejected…

Exporting Jobs 5M US manufacturing jobs lost between 2000 and 2014, according to the Economic Policy Institute 3.6M Manufacturing-job loss from 2000 to 2007 attributable to trade deficits, according to the EPI 2.3M Manufacturing jobs lost during the Great Recession 900K Manufacturing jobs that have been recovered as of 2015 82% Americans who believe that factory workers should have the right to unionize, according to a recent Pew poll 11.1% American workers who belonged to a union at the end of 2014…

@thenation.com On occasion, in partnership with valued advertisers, The Nation will republish noteworthy archive con-tent for our readers. The “From the Archives” letters spread here is an added bonus to, not a replacement of, our regular letters section. The archive content itself is entirely handled by us, as is this introductory column. The Nation has over 150 years of fascinating archive material. We’re happy to showcase this material from time to time and equally happy that Bleecker Street sees the value in doing so. We hope you enjoy what we’ve collected on this occasion and also enjoy Denial, which is now playing in select cities before opening everywhere on October 21. In 1964, David Irving’s account of the 1945 Dresden bombing was attracting attention. The author was “an English journalist…

1886 In its class listings, Yale University notes that the law courses are open only to men. While several women practiced law at the time, elite schools were still hostile to enrolling women, with one Yale alumnus saying, “In theory I am in favor of their studying law and practicing law, provided they are ugly.” 1939 The dean of Columbia Law reports an urgent need for a new women’s bathroom, as the only one available is in the cellar. 1968 A group of Harvard Law women protest an institution common at elite schools, called “Ladies Day,” in which professors single out women to answer embarrassing or provocative questions ranging from dower to what degree of penile penetration constitutes rape. A 1969 graduate said it was “entertainment, a show put on…

Donald Trump begins Crippled America, his will-to-power tract about recovering American greatness, with an uncharacteristic apology of sorts. “The picture we used on the cover of this book”—a glowering shot of the real-estate and reality-TV mogul—is “angry,” even “mean looking,” he writes. He assures the concerned reader that this was deliberate. There were plenty of “beautiful pictures” of an upbeat and smiling Trump. But these would send the wrong message for his dark diatribe: “In this book we’re talking about Crippled America. Unfortunately, there’s very little that’s nice about it. So I wanted a picture where I wasn’t happy, a picture that reflected the anger and unhappiness that I feel, rather than joy. Because we are not in a joyous situation right now.” The scowling, belligerent image of Donald Trump…

The Nation endorses Hillary Clinton for president and believes that a substantial victory by her in November is essential to advance the progressive issues we have long championed. We supported Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, and we remain concerned about Clinton’s approach to politics and governing. But Clinton isn’t running against Sanders anymore. The first case for Clinton can be summed up in two words: Donald Trump. In the contest between hope and cynicism, justice and prejudice, solidarity and selfishness, we can be absolutely certain that Trump is not on our side. Given the perils facing our country and our planet, we believe that Trump’s election would be a catastrophe for the United States— and for the world. We also believe our best chance right now to advance…

If Hillary Clinton loses this election, it will be because she’s had nothing much to say in response to Donald Trump’s most compelling issue: how globalization has devoured American prosperity, especially for the working class. Trump sprinkles poison over everything he has to say, even as his advisers try to play down his bigoted insinuations. But instead of scolding Trump or praising him, I want to talk about the great debate we still haven’t heard. Trump delivers zingers about companies abandoning the United States and moving good jobs elsewhere. America, he says, is “being ripped off by every single country in the world.” Clinton brushes off his accusations with an I-feel-your-pain solicitude for the losers. Give her this much: She is steadfast and loyal in evading any admission that her…

MINIMUM WAGE Hillary Clinton supports raising the federal minimum wage to $12, and she has also supported the Fight for $15 in individual cities and states. Donald Trump’s stance has been called “indecipherable,” but campaign officials say he supports a $10 federal minimum wage, as well as the right of states to set their own minimums. IMMIGRATION Hillary Clinton says she’ll introduce comprehensive immigration reform with a path to full citizenship in her first 100 days in office, and she has also pledged to end private deportation centers. Donald Trump says he’ll build a wall along the US-Mexican border, deport undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes with zero tolerance, and triple the number of deportation officers. HEALTH CARE Hillary Clinton supports expanding the Affordable Care Act and incentivizing states to expand…

When Hillary Clinton was nominated at the Democratic National Convention, the party celebrated with a video of a glass ceiling being shattered, only to reveal Clinton emerging triumphantly from the shards. Although her achievement is moving to me, a woman of a certain age, it is unclear how many younger Americans appreciate the profound—and rapid—revolution underwriting this moment. In an interview in New York magazine last spring, Clinton recalled an encounter she’d had many years ago, when she took the LSAT. A young man said to her, “If you get into law school and I don’t, and I have to go to Vietnam and get killed, it’s your fault.” The interview inspired a comment in which the writer complained: “I don’t believe for one second her story about the LSAT….…

Early this year, the writer ursula k. le guin looked on in dismay as Ammon Bundy and his “bullyboys” occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon. Le Guin had fallen in love with that hard country—with its high desert and the treeless basalt ridges of Steens Mountain— some 50 years ago, on a road trip. It was a difficult drive over gravel roads with young children in the backseat. But the landscape bowled her over. She’d never seen anything like it, yet it felt familiar. “Now here comes the slightly woo-woo part of it,” Le Guin warned me as we sat on her porch in Portland on a warm afternoon in July. Recently, thumbing through a packet of family papers, she discovered that as an adolescent, her grandmother…

Kirsten Johnson’s Cameraperson begins with a voice on the sound track—a disembodied whisper of delight and discovery—as an image of wildflowers pops up, their heads bobbing in close-up beside a farmhouse’s barbed-wire fence. (The location, a title card informs you, is Bosnia.) A flock of sheep comes trotting up, driven along the hilly road by a shepherd on a white horse, and Johnson, still unseen behind her camera, impulsively runs after him, laughing and panting. Then, almost without transition, you see the panorama of a rural highway in Missouri. The road is deserted and silent, the horizon low, the clouds a vast twilight wash of purple and indigo. Suddenly, a distant bolt of lightning splits the left side of the frame, top to bottom, and from behind the camera comes…

12 Weeks of paid leave an employee will receive to care for a new child or a sick family member under Hillary Clinton’s plan 35M Number of Americans who would be lifted out of poverty by Hillary’s proposed minimum-wage increase to $12 an hour $275B Funds that would be invested in comprehensive infrastructure rebuilding under Clinton’s plan $0 Tuition that students from families making up to $125,000 a year will pay at in-state four-year public colleges and universities by 2021 under Clinton’s plan “Let’s prove that the American dream is big enough for everyone.” Hillary Clinton…

Dear Liza, I’m an expat NGO worker living in rural West Africa, and I’m struggling to navigate the dating scene appropriately. The power asymmetry—stemming from my gender and comparative wealth—seems to create a gap between me and my would-be sweethearts too vast for any amount of privilege consciousness to traverse. Most pointedly, any semblance of a relationship devolves into a transactional exchange of materials and sex (at least so it feels to me). Obviously there are power dynamics in any relationship, but do you think there are limits beyond which equitable, loving relationships are not possible? Or am I thinking about this in the wrong way? —Privileged American Male Dear Privileged, Are you working on a screenplay about the experiences that have provoked this question? Please say yes. But in…

The people have spoken: “Don’t try to scare me into voting for Hillary Clinton by talking about how awful Trump is. Make me love her!” I happen to believe that thwarting Trump—a racist, xenophobic, misogynistic fake populist—is an excellent reason to vote for his opponent, a normal human being. If you think Clinton’s evil, which I don’t, let me paraphrase Noam Chomsky: The reason to vote for the lesser evil is that it’s less evil. Also, it’s delusional to think that a Trump presidency would pave the way for a left victory in 2020, much less Susan Sarandon’s “revolution.” It didn’t happen when Humphrey lost to Nixon, it didn’t happen when Carter lost to Reagan, and, just to go there for a moment, it certainly didn’t happen when the German…

In 1992, longtime Nation editorial board member Norman Birnbaum published an essay in these pages offering his thoughts on the presidential election. “What is certain,” he wrote, “is that a re-election of George Bush would see Los Angeles writ large across the country”—the Rodney King riots had happened that April—“with more actual and spiritual violence and a despairing climate in which the pathologies so evident at the Republican convention would move to the center of national life. That is reason enough to vote for Clinton and Gore. Are there other reasons for those of us who seek major changes in our institutions and our social ethos?” Birnbaum had his complaints, but he was cautiously optimistic: “Let us admit the worst about Clinton: his cynicism (as in his use of the…

ACROSS 1 Hater’s need! (6,2,5) 9 Find start of trail and wander (5) 10 Peruvian hollers for working together (2,7) 11 Solidarity for mischievous kids gives protection from punishment (8) 12 Accent a shoe (6) 14 Database constrains diminutive dork (5) 16 Staggered around erratically, etc., like Ronald Reagan (9) 17 Mentions singer having taken sedatives (7,2) 19 Get to a point with a radio journalist, sometimes (5) 22 Relative is held back by unfinished matter (6) 23 That man’s fear is originating in Mexico, perhaps (8) 26 White onion, maybe? That’s an idea! (5,4) 27 How cute sportsman in Oakland halfway kept up (5) 28 Transmitted germ of inspiration by telepathy and with feeling (13) DOWN 1 Comedian frames funny bit for singer (7) 2 Two naked males limiting…