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The Nation | 
 enlarge | Publisher: The Nation
Category: Digital Text Feeds
Buy New: $1.49
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 510
Format: Magazine Subscription
Media: Kindle Edition
Subscription Length: 0 Months
ASIN: B000PATZGK
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Product Description
America's oldest and most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion and analysis, The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred. The Kindle Edition of The Nation contains most articles found in the print edition, but will not include all images. For your convenience, issues are auto-delivered wirelessly to your Kindle at the same time the print edition hits the newsstand.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Highly recommend! October 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great magazine! Well-researched, well-argued, well-written. It presents a wide range of political opinions, from those of staunch Obama supporters to the views of those who question his commitment to real change. Ideologically, it leans strongly towards progressive values. However, the tone of the articles is always calm and measured. It is very refreshing to read a political magazine that never resorts to outbursts of hysteria, which often characterizes today's political discourse. Every issue ends with reviews of interesting books on history, politics, cultural studies, philosophy, or literary criticism.
The Nation works great on Kindle. The presentation is convenient and very easy to navigate. If you subscribe to the Kindle edition, you will get it before your friends do, which is a greata added bonus. And at this price, it's a very good deal.
Viewpoint delivered with full respect for honest reportage September 26, 2008
- and in hand with it. As refreshing as a magazine engaged with our dreary political scene can be, it well earns each month's 149 cents.
Indepth articles and reviews, interesting content August 10, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Because there really are very few good liberal/progressive publications available for the Kindle (or anywhere, for that matter), I subscribe to/support two "political" Kindle periodicals, The Nation and DailyKos. (For the more right-wing fare, I go read it free online.)
The Nation's issues are well organized, sometimes thematically linked, and the articles well written with ample depth. I find myself learning about global issues that normally are not even touched on in the usual "lowest common denominator" fare on TV. Happenings in the arts and sciences are also covered.
The Nation comes out once a week, which I find to be a good rate of publication for a magazine of this type. You don't get the breathless "breaking news" type of reporting (a la Wolf Blitzer) in The Nation, which I find refreshing, but the issues are current and usually of considerable importance. The editors have time to be editors and the writers have time to do their homework. It's a more measured, intelligent approach to the world than we've gotten used to with cable news and screaming-head blogs.
I do not find The Nation to be all that left-wing. On the contrary, I find a balance of perspectives from left (mostly left-of-center) to center-right. Importantly, there are no "Screaming of the Extremists" portions. There are well-articulated viewpoints and the occasional intelligent debate. I'd like to see more of that tone in our general discourse.
The Nation works great on the Kindle, and I find it very easy to get around each issue. So far, I have not encountered any typos either! I appreciate the work that goes into each issue.
 Impartial Reporting? July 23, 2008
2 out of 21 found this review helpful
Two trial issues was a bigger dose of poison than I expected. It's easy to see who star of this show is....Obama can do no wrong. This magazine seems to lean so far left I don't know what holds it up.....what a dissapointment.
Perfect fit for the Kindle June 30, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you're not familiar with the content of The Nation, that's for you to discover via the free 2-week trial, or on their website.
The Nation is a perfect fit for the Kindle format.
- It's all text (making Kindle formatting a snap)
- It's serious (articles are of decent length and depth)
- It's a weekly, so there's no need to leave your wireless on all the time
- It's cheap, and would be good deal even if it weren't -- the Kindle subscription costs exactly half of the dead-tree edition.
To me, it makes a lot more sense to get this slim little pamphlet electronically than on paper. It's still portable, but much more green and mess-free on the Kindle. The 150-year-old magazine is a wonderful complement to the Washington Post.
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