The Nation

The Nation is a left-leaning and progressive American monthly magazine. It covers politics and culture and bills itself as "the flagship of the left". The Nation was once the oldest weekly magazine in the US, but is now published on a monthly basis. It publishes articles by various high-profile American academics and activists. Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of the magazine. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper that closed in 1865, after ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Thereafter, the magazine proceeded to a broader topic, The Nation. An important collaborator of the new magazine was its Literary Editor Wendell Phillips Garrison, son of William. He had at his disposal his father's vast network of contacts. The Nation is published by its namesake owner, The Nation Company, L.P., at 520 8th Ave New York, NY 10018. It has news bureaus in Washington, D.C., London, and South Africa, with departments covering architecture, art, corporations, defense, environment, films, legal affairs, music, peace and disarmament, poetry, and the United Nations. Circulation peaked at 187,000 in 2006 but dropped to 145,000 in print by 2010. By 2026, the magazine reported a total circulation of 100,000.