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The Nation Digital Archive: The Nation is proud to be America's oldest
continuously published journal of political and social commentary. Our entire back file
is available online as The Nation Digital Archive. Users can search the full text of
every issue, as well as view and print scanned images of every page all the way
back to 1865.
Commentary Digital Archive: Commentary Digital Archive is an invaluable
resource for educators, providing in-depth analysis of topics such as the cold war,
the Arab-Israeli conflict, American foreign policy, defense, the Supreme Court,
affirmative action, welfare, crime, immigration, religion, education, art, literature,
classical music, and much more.
NACLA: The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) is an
independent non-profit organization founded in 1966.
NACLA provides policy makers, analysts, academics, organizers, journalists and
religious and community groups with information on major trends in Latin America
and its relations with the United States. The core of NACLA's work is its bimonthly
magazine NACLA Report on the Americas, the most widely read English language
publication on Latin America.
The New Republic: When The New Republic was founded in 1914, its mission was
to provide its readers with an intelligent, stimulating and rigorous examination of
American politics, foreign policy and culture. It has brilliantly maintained its mission
for over ninety years.
The New Republic covers issues before they hit the mainstream, from energy to the
environment, from foreign to fiscal policy. By publishing the best writing from a
variety of viewpoints -- including those from arts and culture, with literary criticism that
sets the standard in the academic arena and among general readers alike -- The
New Republic continues to be among America's best and most influential journals of
opinion.
Harper's: Harper's Magazine (or simply Harper's) is a monthly general-interest
magazine covering literature, politics, culture, and the arts. The second oldest
continuously-published monthly magazine in the United States, Harper's was
launched in June 1850. Its early issues included material that had already been
published in England, but the publication soon began to print the work of American
artists and writers. It subsequently published commentaries by prominent politicians
from both sides of the Atlantic, such as Winston Churchill and Woodrow Wilson.
Other notable contributors include Horatio Alger, Stephen A. Douglas, Robert Frost,
Henry James, Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and John Updike.
National Review: National Review ("NR") is a conservative/libertarian political
magazine founded in 1955 and is published biweekly. Fifty years after its founding,
National Review is considered by many to be one of the United States' most
politically influential conservative publications.
Commonweal: Commonweal publishes editorials, columns, essays, poetry,
reviews of books, movies, plays, the media, a selection of apposite and/or funny
cartoons, & lots of letters to the editors. Liberal? Conservative? Depends on the
issue & the writer. From its founding in 1924(!), the journal has held that America has
much to learn from Catholicism, and vice versa-a core belief that has survived
severe testing in disputes over the Spanish Civil War, civil rights, Vietnam, Humanae
vitae...
American Spectator: The American Spectator is a conservative U.S. monthly
magazine covering news and politics featuring leading writers such as Thomas
Sowell, Tom Wolfe, P.J. O'Rourke, George F. Will, Patrick J. Buchanan, Alex Linder
and Malcolm Muggeridge.
Founded in 1967 as The Alternative, the publication gained prominence in the
1990s by reporting on political scandals including the expose on Clarence Thomas
accuser Anita Hill. Other controversial subjects such as Hillary and Bill Clinton,
including A January 1994 article about then-President Bill Clinton's sex life contained
the first reference in print to Clinton accuser Paula Jones.
The New York Review of Books: The New York Review of Books, the premier
literary-intellectual magazine in the English language, electronic edition is now
available for academic libraries, public libraries, and other institutions: providing
students, employees, researchers, and library patrons with unlimited simultaneous
access to over 40 years worth of fully searchable material (including more than 850
back issues and 16,000 articles, reviews, letters and original essays). Published
since 1963, The New York Review of Books archives are a valuable resource for
scholars, students, writers, and publishing professionals interested in literature,
culture and current affairs.
Dissent: Dissent, a quarterly magazine of politics and culture was founded in 1954
to dissent both from Stalinism and McCarthyism. One of America's leading
intellectual journals on the left, it has published articles by founding editor Irving
Howe, current editor Michael Walzer, Mitchell Cohen, Hannah Arendt, Erich Fromm,
Paul Goodman, Claude Brown, Michael Harrington, C. Wright Mills, Norman Mailer,
Amos Oz, Richard Rorty, Ignazio Silone, Ellen Willis, Richard Wright, and many other
prominent writers. There is extraordinary coverage of both domestic and
international events.
The New Yorker: Since 1925, The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a
signature mix of reporting on national and international politics and culture, humor
and cartoons, fiction and poetry, and reviews and criticism of books, movies,
theatre, classical and popular music, television, art, and fashion.
The New Leader: The New Leader, which began in 1924, is a journal of news
analysis and opinion. It's liberal anti-communist magazine has attracted
considerable attention by publishing articles from dissident writers and works
circulating underground in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe . It first published
Joseph Brodsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the United States.
The Progressive: Since 1909; is a monthly leftwing magazine of investigative
reporting, political commentary, cultural coverage, activism, interviews, poetry, and
humor.
The Weekly Standard, since 1995, conservative perspectives of politics,
government, national security, foreign policy, books, arts and society.
Moment: Since 1975, is the largest independent Jewish magazine in North
America.
Orion: Since 1982, an excellent resource for environmental justice, political
leadership, and economic practices. Orion’s mission is to inform, inspire, and
engage individuals and grassroots organizations in becoming a significant cultural
force for healing nature and community.
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