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The Nation magazine opened its doors on the 6th of July 1865 at 130 Nassau Street in Manhattan. This date marked the end of William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator and the beginning of a new era for progressive journalism.
Frederick Law Olmsted led a group of abolitionists to create this successor publication while Joseph H. Richards acted as founding publisher. Edwin Lawrence Godkin became the first editor after serving as a former correspondent for London Daily News.
Hamilton Fish V organized a group that purchased The Nation from the Strow family in 1977 before Arthur L. Carter acquired it in 1985. Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara announced switching from biweekly to monthly publication format in December 2023 after becoming president on the 23rd of February 2022.
The magazine endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for president on the 14th of January 2016 and again on the 2nd of March 2020. On the 23rd of September 2024 the publication featured an endorsement of Kamala Harris despite criticism regarding foreign politics especially Gaza war situation.
Grace Schulman served as poetry editor from 1971 until 2006 writing that the apology represented disturbing departure from artistic freedom traditions. Poetry editors Stephanie Burt and Carmen Giménez Smith issued an apology making it first such action ever taken by The Nation regarding a poem written by Anders Carlson-Wee.