The Nation Magazine

I’m a left-of-center old-time liberal and chair of my local Democratic organization. I subscribe to The Nation and appreciate its weekly take on the state of the USA and the world. I also subscribe to National Review, the conservative weekly that supports the Republican Party while being ant-Trump from the beginning of that obscene demagogue’s appearance on the political stage. I read NR to be informed about conservative opinion, the better to argue against it. I find I read NR more frequently than The Nation for one main reason: NR has an online daily news update that comes directly to my email. Half the time it’s straight reporting about significant events happening at the moment, often before I hear about them from other sources. The other half is timely and thoughtful opinion pieces. I do wish deeply that The Nation would venture onto something similar from the liberal-progressive viewpoint. Instead it merely reproduces the contents of its weekly magazine. Failure to compete with NR on the platform it now dominates puts their opposition at a disadvantage.

I seek and enjoy human developments that are interesting and generally missed by the media. The Nation tries to be truthful to even invite popular anger makes it my personal choice to read the critical aspects of our culture. the nation has special insight to hidden and undercurrents of social movements to frame of the emerging facts for women and people of color. Informing the world of mostly unreported changes in society and lead the way for other media to the join the Nation is a marvelous gift to us all. May we celebrate these gifts for an infinite future.

About a year after my original review, the app is still useless. It won't take my login info, but gives me an error message and an email address to contact. When I try the email, I get an error that it isn't valid. I love the magazine, but seriously, this app seems to have zero priority. A real shame. I'm changing my rating down to one star. --- My experience is exactly the same as Zimmerman's on Dec 1. I have subscribed to digital+paper, and I logged in. Login is very confusing. I have been able to access some issues , but have tried for days to access the issue that just arrived in hard copy, and it wants to charge me for it or take out another subscription. This is a very important publication that many more people should be reading. Please fix the iPhone app!