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The Nation is a weekly, left-of-center periodical devoted to politics and culture. Founded in 1865, 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 160,029,
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 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.
Regular columns include:
- "Beat the Devil" by Alexander Cockburn
- "Stop the Presses" 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
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.
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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.
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