The Nation
America's oldest continuously published weekly magazine, The Nation has maintained a consistent liberal/radical outlook since its founding, in 1865, by a group of abolitionists just ...
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In the following essay, Gannett discusses the place of Villard and The Nation in journalistic history.
Oswald Garrison Villard liked to think of himself as the simple product of two simple currents...
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In the following essay, Thernstrom discusses Villard's pacifist beliefs and the effect they had on his editorship of The Nation.
‘History, if honest history continues to be written, w...
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In the following essays, Wreszin provides a brief overview and assessment of Villard's career and discusses the reform issues Villard advocated in The Nation.
In 1877 Henry Villard, returnin...
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In the following essay, Gannett examines the social and political impact of The Nation under Villard's editorship.
I doubt that there was ever another such journalistic heaven as was The Nat...
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Ned Yost has no plans for a May parade, no matter how well his Brewers are playing. Geoff Jenkins homered and drove in the go-ahead run in the eighth and the Brewers beat the Washington Nationals 3...
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Twenty-eight-year-old Christopher Hayes will be The Nation's new DC bureau editor, according to a memo sent to staff this afternoon.Mr. Hayes, who has spent the last year contributing regularly to...
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we-almost-revealed-the-JT Leroy-hoax press release a few months back, The Nation's publicity director, Mike Webb, fired off a release this afternoon--in the wake of USA Today's exclusive NSA data-m...
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“I think my bureau will be almost as big as the Time magazine bureau,” David Corn was telling The Observer on Monday afternoon, a kid-in-a-candy-store excitement in his voice. That morn...
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For a brief moment last month, George W. Bush behaved like a responsible leader instead of a partisan demagogue. On the issue of immigration, which provokes so much demagogic and divisive rhetoric ...
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