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Imserba Webstore - The Nation
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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 47
Label: Nation
Magazine Type: Trade magazine
Manufacturer: Nation
Number Of Issues: 47
Publisher: Nation
Studio: Nation
Subscription Length: 365
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Founded in 1865, The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine, the flagship of the Left, and now the country's most widely read journal of opinion. Published to inform the national debate on critical issues of the day, The Nation seeks to enlighten and empower a community of concerned citizens and influential readers. The Nation has long served as an early-warning system, exposing prejudice, discrimination, and abuse of power through investigative reporting, analysis, commentary, and cultural reviews. Proudly independent of political parties and corporate interests, The Nation exposes, in print and online, issues often ignored by the mainstream media. Championing civil liberties, human rights, economic justice, and peace, The Nation challenges the status quo, encourages dissent, and presents ideas from a variety of voices, always seeking a more tolerant and just future.
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Summary: THE NATION SHARES YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS WITH MANY OTHER COMPANIES
Comment: Beware....as much as the Nation is a progressive magazine, printed on recycled paper, and a honest view of the news, It also violates your privacy by selling or giving away your name and address to MANY other companies. If you code your name with say a N for the Nation you will soon start receiving lots of junk mail wanting donations from you and you can clearly see where they have come from. I asked the Nation NOT TO SHARE our name and address when I subscribed to them and they clearly violated this request, and can't even take the time to respond to my letters to them about this policy. As much as I wanted to support them and their great writers, I stopped my subscription with them. The junk mail coded with a N is still coming. This is just wrong for such a progressive magazine.
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Summary: Nation Magazine
Comment: One of the best lefty publications available. An ideal balance to say the Weekly Standard for the thoughtful few who actually try to stray from the choir of the left or the choir of the right and form their own opinions.
The Nation is well written and read by itself, the Nation has the potential to harden your brain into lockstep with the arguments of the leftwing. It also has the potential to open you brain if you find yourself in a rightwing routine.
Get it, read it and then find a balance.
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Summary: OUR FINEST NATIONAL MAGAZINE STILL IN PRINT, EVER
Comment: I have been a The Nation reader for at least thirty years, borrowing my father's issue from before the dark days of Reagan/Bush the First, and grateful for this brave little light shining in the darkness of debt and of war ever since, a light which shines forth in the darkness, which the darkness cannot comprehend.
But, well, what immediately always fascinated me was the impossible Crossword on the final page. Frank Lewis may not be as relentless now as he once was, when I would consider it a victory to solve even a few lines before waiting eagerly for the following week's issue to find the solutions, which were always brilliant and often very funny. The Frank Lewis Crosswords from the eighties are probably the finest ever written, involving every kind of word game in the book just to do a crossword, and all beautifully symmetrical. See his great Cryptic Crosswords from The Nation; even a used copy would not be completed!
Yet I have not come to praise the final page, but all of the content.
I remember when Christopher Hitchens had brilliances to say about our country's various crims against humanity under the dark regime of Reagan/Bush, before Hitch burned out and went over to the dark side himself. I have always had the greatest respect and appreciation for the courageous and astute Mr. Cockburn, and rejoiced to meet him in Managua in the late eighties, he who wrote Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era (Haymarket Series), and Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press and a number of other essential essays available very favorably here upon this amazon.
And I remember when Calvin Trillins had the best page of all, dry New York wit, wonderful, this novelist of the brilliant Tepper Isn't Going Out: A Novel, the food writer who properly adores New Mexican pozole, presently relegated to a few lines of hilarious, dry verse whose title often exceeds the verse by several lines, and whose verse may well be read in Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme. Please do a search upon the amazon with the one parameter trillin and you will find the best writing being written in this past quarter century, including, dare I say, the culinary treat called The Tummy Trilogy American Fried, Alice let's eat and Third helpings.
And still the Nation goes on, telling us what we really need to know, brilliantly. Get the Nation, and know our history in the making.
Be alone no longer; read The Nation. Oh, and of course also the Catholic Worker, delivered to your door!
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Summary: A PLAUSIBLE INSTITUTION
Comment: The Nation is a great publication that has featured the works of scholarly writers such as Eric Alterman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Noam Chomsky and Norman Mailer. Though the issues addressed and the opinions expressed are often labeled as leftist, this magazine nonetheless contains some very thought-provoking nuances and propositions for a better America that sound intelligent.
Though many are outraged about some of the stances that the editors and contributors of The Nation have taken, their retorts often fall short of being strong, tangible, clearly expressed responses. From what I see and hear, too many discussions from them center around using diatribes and trying with no success to portray or effectively deconstruct the perceived merits and flaws of this work or the like.
It was from reading nonfiction books by Ayn Rand that I was perpetually presented the term straw man, an argument approach that was, according to Rand, used by those of altruistic and socialistic agendas that stripped mankind of its individual freedoms. With The Nation, there are bits and pieces of anecdotal evidence that might oppose any laissez-faire capitalistic themes championed by Rand, but I cannot say that they are mere straw man commentaries.
I concur that the magazine might be somewhat slanted, as are all other publications. But global and domestic complexities, I believe, are abounding at a rate that not even the most sophisticated philosophies or ideologies from years past can focus upon in adequate context. To me, The Nation is one of those rare, bold sources that unequivocally acknowledge this disturbance.
Among the recurring themes in this publication is that in this twenty-first century, despite the technological advances that have come to fruition, our nation and world are as divided as ever and that economic globalization seems to have married or melded the worst elements of opposing political platforms. To many contributors, it was decades ago that very few envisioned that the powerful from the freest of societies would be expanding their businesses and increasing their wealth by overtly banking upon productivity levels from geographical areas where human rights are minimized or obliterated.
In The Nation, very interesting columns and analyses are provided regarding the living conditions that working class Americans are either embracing or enduring. Suggestions are intermittently proposed regarding higher pay, better health care, and improved living standards through government reforms, often where the efforts from hard-working individuals and the private sector fall short.
As a reader, I do not necessarily agree with the views espoused, and the level to which I do so is not what I find to be the value of The Nation. What is priceless about this publication is that regardless of what school you are from or what think tank you highly esteem, it will either perpetually reinforce your cherished ideals or will make you use introspection, perhaps re-examine what you thought were sound resolutions for a progressive society.
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Summary: Nation sells your subscription information
Comment: The Nation is a good magazine, but they sell your subscription information and you will be flooded with all sorts of junk mail. Even if you tell them not to release your personal information you will notice an increase in junk mail after you subscribe to The Nation.
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