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'''''The Nation''''' is a weekly [[magazine]] of opinion and reviews, first published in 1865.
'''''The Nation''''' is a weekly [[magazine]] of opinion and reviews, first published in 1865.
''The Nation'' has always been a bastion of liberal and socialist thought and is unashamedly left-leaning. ''The Nation'' has had writers identified as Soviet spies in the [[Venona project]]. Unsurprisingly, Victor Navasky, editor and publisher of The Nation, has criticised the Venona analysis, claiming the material is being used to "distort our understanding of the cold war". He has also referred to the files as potential "time bombs of misinformation."<ref>Navasky, Victir (July 16, 2001). "Cold War Ghosts". The Nation. http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20010716&s=navasky. </ref>
''The Nation'' has always been a bastion of liberal and socialist thought and is unashamedly left-leaning. ''The Nation'' has had writers identified as Soviet spies in the [[Venona project]]. Unsurprisingly, Victor Navasky, editor and publisher of The Nation, has criticised the Venona analysis, claiming the material is being used to "distort our understanding of the cold war". He has also referred to the files as potential "time bombs of misinformation."<ref>Navasky, Victor (July 16, 2001). ''Cold War Ghosts''. The Nation. http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20010716&s=navasky. </ref>
The current Editor and Publisher is [[Katrina vanden Heuvel]], succeeding the now "Publisher Emeritus" [[Victor Navasky]].
The current Editor and Publisher is [[Katrina vanden Heuvel]], succeeding the now "Publisher Emeritus" [[Victor Navasky]].
''The Nation'' publishes 48 weeks a year, printing letters to the editor (including responses by article writers), editorial positions, columns by regular commentators, book reviews, and the ''Nation'' cryptic crossword, which has been set by cryptographer Frank W. Lewis since just after the [[World War 2|Second World War]].
''The Nation'' publishes 48 weeks a year, printing letters to the editor (including responses by article writers), editorial positions, columns by regular commentators, book reviews, and the ''Nation'' cryptic crossword, which has been set by cryptographer Frank W. Lewis since just after the [[World War 2|Second World War]].
==Communist infiltration==
The [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]] (SISS) wrote in its Report on the ''Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States'',
{{Cquote|''[[The Nation]]'' and the ''New Republic'' have long records as [[liberal]] publications. They cannot be described as Communist, but they are so [[infiltration|infiltrated]] with the [[Communist Party]] [[policy]] that they serve the interests of the Communists and [[Deceit|confuse]] liberals on many issues, much more than so some of the Communist publications.<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Scope_of_Soviet_Activity.pdf ''Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States''] excerpted, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act, Committee of the Judiciary United States Senate, GPO, Washington, D.C. 1957, p. 2822. (p.9 pdf). </ref>}}
==Further reading==
*[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/i-f--stone--soviet-agent-case-closed-15120 I.F. Stone, Soviet Agent—Case Closed], ''Commentary'', Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes and Alexander Vassiliev, May 2009.
==See also==
==See also==