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TheNation.com is the leading online community for progressive, action–oriented thought leaders.

Founded in 1865, The Nation magazine is America's oldest weekly magazine and the country's most widely read political journal. The Nation is produced with the highest journalistic standards, speaking with an authority that reflects the editorial vetting, fact–checking and deliberative characteristics of opinion journals. We published the first works of Hunter S. Thompson, James Baldwin and Ralph Nader, as well as the work of Albert Einstein, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, Henry James, Willa Cather and hundreds of other independent–minded, paradigm–shifting writers and thinkers—making it the magazine of record for America's progressive thought leaders.

TheNation.com carries the magazine's historic tradition of influence into the online world. Named by CNET as one of the best political sites of 2009, TheNation.com is an online community where users can stay informed through continuously updated editorial content, and where they can interact with both The Nation's writers and with each other.