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The Nation was founded on the 6th of July, 1865, at 130 Nassau Street in Manhattan. It was established by a group of abolitionists led by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, with Edwin Lawrence Godkin as its first editor.
Bhaskar Sunkara, founder of Jacobin, became president of The Nation on the 23rd of February, 2022. He announced in December 2023 that the magazine would shift from a biweekly to a monthly publication.
The Nation had a total circulation of 96,000 in 2021, combining print and digital subscribers. The magazine relies on subscriptions for 60% of its revenue and a donor program called Nation Associates for 30%, with advertising accounting for only 10%.
The Nation has consistently supported progressive and left-leaning causes since its founding. It endorsed Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas in 1932, called for US entry into World War II before Pearl Harbor, criticized McCarthyism in the 1950s, and endorsed Bernie Sanders for president in 2016.
The Nation has published poetry by Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, W. S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda, Denise Levertov, and Derek Walcott, among others. Grace Schulman served as the magazine's poetry editor from 1971 to 2006.
In January 1942, when the Holocaust was receiving almost no attention from global media, The Nation published multiple articles by Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein describing Nazi Germany's crimes against Jews in Schutzstaffel-run concentration camps. The magazine also advocated for the United States to provide refuge to German Jewry.