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The NationProgressive. Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation is the long-running flagship of the American left-liberal tradition, and it is where progressive arguments about labor, civil liberties, voting rights and foreign policy are made at full length by people who believe them.
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Dissent (American magazine)Democratic socialist. Irving Howe and Lewis Coser launched Dissent in 1954 as an independent socialist journal that was also firmly anti-Communist, and that double refusal still sets its tone: it argues for the left while arguing with it.
This is the quarterly to pick for the left's internal…0 - 3
The American ProspectLiberal, policy first. Robert Kuttner, Robert Reich and Paul Starr founded The American Prospect in 1990 as a magazine of liberal ideas, and it remains the place where progressive economics is argued in specifics: antitrust, trade, health care, labor law.
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The New RepublicLiberal. Founded in 1914, The New Republic is one of the oldest voices of American liberalism, and today it makes the progressive case on democracy, inequality, climate and corporate power in a print magazine published ten times a year alongside a daily website.
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Jacobin (magazine)Socialist. Bhaskar Sunkara started Jacobin online in 2010, when he was 21, and it grew into a quarterly print magazine and website that brought a younger, more combative socialism into mainstream American debate.
It is the clearest guide to how the new left thinks about class, unions and electoral…0 - 6
National ReviewConservative. William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review in 1955, and it became the central forum where free-market economics, anti-Communism and traditional morality were joined into the modern American conservative movement.
It is still one of the best places to see mainstream conservatism…0 - 7
Commentary (magazine)Neoconservative. Founded in 1945 by the American Jewish Committee and independent since 2007, Commentary is the magazine where many liberals of the postwar era argued their way to the right, and it still carries that history in its voice.
Choose it for hawkish foreign policy, defense of Israel and…0 - 8
The American ConservativePaleoconservative and anti-interventionist. Pat Buchanan, Scott McConnell and Taki Theodoracopulos launched The American Conservative in 2002, largely to oppose the coming Iraq War, and restraint abroad remains its signature argument.
It is the right-of-center magazine to read for skepticism of…0 - 9
First ThingsReligious conservative. Richard John Neuhaus launched First Things in 1990 as an ecumenical journal of religion and public life, and under editor R. R. Reno it has become a leading voice of the religious and increasingly postliberal right.
Read it to understand how serious Catholic, Protestant and…0 - 10
City JournalConservative, urban policy. City Journal is the quarterly of the Manhattan Institute, first published in 1990, and it makes the right's case where most of the country actually lives: policing, schools, housing, homelessness and the cost of running a city.
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