The Nation’s Guide to the Nation

The Nation’s Guide to the Nation

Author and Nation senior editor Richard Lingeman unveils his new book–a virtual one-stop shop for liberals across America.

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The essential lifestyle guide for the millions of progressives from coast to coast, The Nation Guide to the Nation (VINTAGE BOOKS, 2009) helps left-of-center types find small businesses, cultural institutions, activist organizations, and gathering places in their own hometowns and on the road. A virtual one-stop shop for liberals across America, the book also features selective essays from the likes of Studs Terkel, Francis Fitzgerald, Howard Zinn, Stuart Klawans and Ray Bradbury.

This video, featuring the book’s author Richard Lingeman as well as its two consulting editors, Katrina vanden Heuvel and Victor Navasky, highlights the breadth, depth and fun of this compendium of non-corporate culture in America today.

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.”

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Onwards,

Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation

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