Speaking Out, Making it Count
The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine and the country's most read journal of opinion for left wing society. Facing the most critical issues of the day, The Nation brings value as an accurate, insightful and truthful advocate for upholding our Bill of Rights as well as the U.S. Constitution. We report the facts, and give you the tools you need to act and let your voice be heard. In fact, readers of The Nation are among the most loyal and conspicuously involved of any news and opinion journal.
A Definitive Journalistic Voice
With 140 years of writing on politics, culture, books and the arts, The Nation has remained true to its original commitment to be the critical, independent voice in American journalism. Historical writers James Baldwin, Ralph Nader and Hunter Thompson published their first pieces in The Nation. Other contributors have included Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Emma Goldman and Jean-Paul Sartre.
A Proud Literary History
The Nation has published works from illustrious authors such as W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Henry James, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann and hundreds of other major writers. But it's not just the writers, it's intelligent readers like you who pour over every column—columns that bring a critical spirit to the discussion of political and social questions without vice, violence, exaggeration or misrepresentation. This is why The Nation is the country's oldest and one of the country's most venerated weekly publications.