Nation Notes

Nation Notes

Nine years ago, when The Nation first went online, we thought putting up selections from the magazine once a week constituted a major step into the world of the web.

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Nine years ago, when The Nation first went online, we thought putting up selections from the magazine once a week constituted a major step into the world of the web. In the years since, we’ve started adding fresh content daily, including features like “What Are They Reading?” and online commentary by our editor and two of our political writers–all of which has helped raise the number of visitors to the site to an average of 600,000 a month. The web has also proved to be an effective way to introduce The Nation to a new audience; last year 28,000 people subscribed to the print edition through the website.

Now, in an effort to improve the site’s ability to extend the message and politics of The Nation, and to help visitors be better able to understand quickly what makes us unique, we’ve made major changes to the homepage and other key elements of the site. These changes, developed with the help of the award-winning design team Brown & Ryan, will debut on May 5. We’ll still offer selections from the magazine and all our regular web features. But we’re adding a news wire that will spotlight overlooked but important stories on other, mainly progressive sites and some new features, like Wal-Mart Nation. We’re also offering, for the first time, the ability to interact with the writers of our online blogs and commentaries.

We cannot back down

We now confront a second Trump presidency.

There’s not a moment to lose. We must harness our fears, our grief, and yes, our anger, to resist the dangerous policies Donald Trump will unleash on our country. We rededicate ourselves to our role as journalists and writers of principle and conscience.

Today, we also steel ourselves for the fight ahead. It will demand a fearless spirit, an informed mind, wise analysis, and humane resistance. We face the enactment of Project 2025, a far-right supreme court, political authoritarianism, increasing inequality and record homelessness, a looming climate crisis, and conflicts abroad. The Nation will expose and propose, nurture investigative reporting, and stand together as a community to keep hope and possibility alive. The Nation’s work will continue—as it has in good and not-so-good times—to develop alternative ideas and visions, to deepen our mission of truth-telling and deep reporting, and to further solidarity in a nation divided.

Armed with a remarkable 160 years of bold, independent journalism, our mandate today remains the same as when abolitionists first founded The Nation—to uphold the principles of democracy and freedom, serve as a beacon through the darkest days of resistance, and to envision and struggle for a brighter future.

The day is dark, the forces arrayed are tenacious, but as the late Nation editorial board member Toni Morrison wrote “No! This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

I urge you to stand with The Nation and donate today.

Onwards,

Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation

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