The New Republic

[carrowsboy]

Is it a conservative magazine?

I'm watching "Shattered Glass" and was wondering.

[kentuck]

1. Fred Barnes and Morton Kondracke used to write for the mag...

at the same time! It's been all downhill since that time, in my opinion. They brought Barnes in for "balance".

[FrenchieCat]

2. My understanding is that it's centrist...

and considering that they ended up endorsing Lieberman in 2004, you can imagine just how "Centrist".

They have a couple of good writers out of several in their stable and they have can come up with pretty insightful articles now and then that I have enjoyed....but that's about it.

[LuPeRcALiO]

4. right, kind of conservative Dem,

with ultra-hardcore support of Shrub's Middle East policy. Pretty good campaign reporting though.

[AlCzervik]

3. They supported the war in Iraq, imo The Nation is a much better magazine.

[lady lib]

5. Yeah, I'll second a vote for The Nation.

eom

[FrenchieCat]

6. Yes....the Nation is better,

Most of the time.

All in all, The Nation IS better than TNR....that I will say, but at times The Nation can be rather unpragmatic and extreme with it's leftist slant.

Personally, I like the American Prospect. It leans to the left, but not too the extreme, with consistently good articles from established and well regarded writers.
http://www.prospect.org/web/index.ww

[AlCzervik]

8. the Nation does lean very hard left but really overall

the writing is very good and they cover stories that i want to read about and the lack of in your face ads is another good thing.

[FrenchieCat]

9. I think that if one reads

The New Republic, The Nation, and American Prospect....one will get a pretty balanced view of what's going on...in the end.

TNR is Centrist leaning slightly right

The American Prospect is Moderate leaning quite left

The Nation is Hard Left lean

My recommendation is that one reads them all.

[AlCzervik]

10. i read American Prospect online and now and then TNR

also i read my local paper www.sacbee.com everyday.

[Hello_Kitty]

13. I kinda like reading some far left slant

Especially when bombarded by the far right viewpoint from every corner. I don't agree with everything I read in the Nation but I'm glad it's getting out there.

[discopants]

7. Shattered Glass

I rented it on a whim a few weekends ago and was very impressed. Not knowing the story of Steven Glass beforehand made it even better.

[realFedUp]

17. more on Stephen Glass here

http://www.rickmcginnis.com/articles/Glassindex.htm

Amazing that no other editors caught his
fabrications...

I call the mag The New Republican

[Blue Belle]

11. I read the New Republic...

But I also counter that information with the Nation, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, and Salon.com.

"Ya take the good, ya take the bad, ya take em both and there ya have..."

:-)

[FrenchieCat]

12. Those you named are good cross reading...

But please do check out American Prospect. It is very good as well, and kind of belongs in the middle of all that you listed.

[cobaindrain]

14. I read "The Nation" religiously

recommend it to everybody

the American Prospect is also pretty good.

[CTyankee]

15. I subscribe to TNR

but sometimes I am just flabbergasted at their obtuse take on the Republicans. I like some of their contributing editors, Helen Vendler in particular, a literary critic. I like their film reviewer, too. I often compare what I glean from DU to what TNR publishes on the same subject. I am really not that objective, tho.

[salin]

16. once they were thought to be on the left - but they took a hard

turn right during the Reagan years. That took them to the center. Sometimes left of sometimes right of - seemingly more critical of dems than not.