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Who runs The Nation, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest political magazine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Mother Jones
Measured from The Nation’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Nation01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Nation
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The Nation Magazine
Wikidata: American weekly magazine on left politics and culture
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Nation tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
8 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 4 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Nation
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Nation, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Mother Jones – Smart, fearless journalism
American progressive magazine
Very close - 02
The New Republic
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues.
Very close - 03
The Intercept
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
Very close - 04
Salon.com - News, Politics, Culture, Science & Food
American progressive news and opinion website
Very close - 05
Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts
Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.
Very close - 06
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close - 07
Breitbart News Network
Syndicated news and opinion website providing continuously updated headlines to top news and analysis sources.
Very close - 08
Newsweek - Latest Breaking News, US, World, Politics, Business, Tech and Videos.
Newsweek provides in-depth analysis on news, world events, politics, business, tech, entertainment, healthcare, & trending videos. Subscribe for breaking news alerts!
Very close - 09
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Very close - 10
Washington Examiner – Congress, White House & Political News
Washington Examiner covers Congress, the White House, national security, the courts and elections, with breaking news and conservative analysis from D.C.
Very close - 11
HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion
Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.
Very close - 12
The National - Latest world news, sport & opinion
The latest international news, headlines and events from around the world
Very close - 13
Foreign Policy – the Global Magazine of News and Ideas
The Global Magazine of News and Ideas
Very close - 14 Raw Story rawstory.com
left-leaning American online news organization
Close - 15
Últimas noticias de Argentina y el mundo - LA NACION
LA NACION ofrece las últimas noticias, fotos y videos de la Argentina y el mundo. Política, economía, deportes y toda la información en tiempo real.
Very close - 16
British daily broadsheet newspaper
Very close - 17
The New Yorker
Reporting, Profiles, breaking news, cultural coverage, podcasts, videos, and cartoons from The New Yorker.
Close - 18
Vanity Fair - Entertainment, Politics, and Fashion News | Vanity Fair
Entertainment, TV, politics, celebrity, fashion, and beauty news and commentary.
Very close - 19
Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.
Very close - 20
Latest World & National News & Headlines - USATODAY.com
USA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, and videos.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Nation’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Nation uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what The Nation adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 25 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Nation’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.2
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.thenation.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Analytics
- Chartbeat page source: static.chartbeat.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Meta Pixel page source: connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577d0b7ca02c775-HAM
- Hosting
- Pantheon header x-pantheon-styx-hostname: styx-us-a-684cbff7d7-8bng8
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.2)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms63401057
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: jOzJ10xekfd9lckW1hXFToQyPMK9dW1ljYjVEKQUk7w
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=qts19cdkpxctfko3tiitwo8iqxci7o
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Meta Business Suite 15/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Google Tag Manager 12/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on thenation.com 11/20
- Apple Business · not on thenation.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on thenation.com 10/20
- Atlassian · not on thenation.com 9/20
- OneTrust · not on thenation.com 9/20
- Adobe · not on thenation.com 8/20
- PHP 7/20
- WordPress 7/20
- Fastly · not on thenation.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on thenation.com 7/20
- OpenAI · not on thenation.com 7/20