The Nation
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For the township in Ontario see The Nation, Ontario.
The Nation is a weekly leftist periodical devoted to politics and culture. Founded in 1865 as a classical liberal publication, it is the oldest weekly in the United States. It is published by the Nation Company, L.P. at 33 Irving Place, New York City. The Nation has bureaus in Budapest, London, and Southern Africa and departments covering Architecture, Art, Corporations, Defense, Environment, Films, Legal Affairs, Music, Peace and Disarmament, Poetry, and the United Nations. The circulation of The Nation is rising and was last placed at 164,795 (2004), surpassing the neoliberal The New Republic, the neoconservative The Weekly Standard, and the conservative National Review (circulation 155,584). The Nation magazine has lost money every year of operation and has a group of 17,000 donors called the Nation Associates who give to the periodical beyond their annual subscription purchase.
The publisher and editorial director of The Nation is Victor Navasky. It is edited by Katrina vanden Heuvel. Former editors include: Carey McWilliams. Notable past contributors to The Nation include Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, and French intellectual John-Paul Sartre.
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Regular columns
- "Beat the Devil" by Alexander Cockburn
- "The Liberal Media" by Eric Alterman
- "Diary of a Mad Law Professor" by Patricia J. Williams
- "Subject to Debate" by Katha Pollitt
- "Look Out" by Naomi Klein
- "Deadline Poet" by Calvin Trillin
Notable Events
The Nation Washington D.C. bureau editor, David Corn broke the Valerie Plame leak scandal in the summer of 2003 in the pages of The Nation after noting that journalist Robert Novak's blowing of the spy's cover in a newspaper column could be a possible felony.
In a widely publicized and vocal break with the magazine, former columnist Christopher Hitchens left The Nation when it published a large number of letters from readers, who, Hitchens claimed, blamed America for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
In 1997, MacArthur Foundation money was contributed to the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting through a MacArthur "genius grant" program, which was then headed by Catharine Stimpson, a member of The Nation magazine's Nation Institute Board.
Editorial Board
Norman Birnbaum, Richard Falk, Frances FitzGerald, Eric Foner, Philip Green, Lani Guinier, Tom Hayden, Randall Kennedy, Tony Kushner, Elinor Langer, Deborah W. Meier, Toni Morrison, Richard Parker, Michael Pertschuk, Elizabeth Pochoda, Marcus G. Raskin, David Weir, and Roger Wilkins.
External link
The Nation is also a daily newspaper in Pakistan.
The Nation was also an Irish newspaper. See: The Nation.
The Nation was also a left-wing newspaper in the United Kingdom, which was merged into the New Statesman in 1931.
The Nation is a township in Ontario; see The Nation, Ontario.
