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The Nation
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.
16 of the 60 sites closest to The Nation match.
- 01
The New Republic
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues.
Very close - 02
The Intercept
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
Very close - 03
Salon.com - News, Politics, Culture, Science & Food
American progressive news and opinion website
Very close - 04
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 - 05
The National - Latest world news, sport & opinion
The latest international news, headlines and events from around the world
Very close - 06
Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Very close - 07
NBC News - Breaking Headlines and Video Reports on World, U.S. and Local Angles | NBC News
Go to NBCNews.com for breaking news, videos, and the latest top stories in world news, business, politics, health and pop culture.
Very close - 08
Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
American nonprofit newspaper (1908-)
Close - 09
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Close - 10
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Close - 11
MIT Technology Review
Emerging technology news & insights | AI, Climate Change, BioTech, and more
Close - 12
Top News, Latest headlines, Latest News, World News & U.S News - UPI.com
UPI delivers the latest headlines from around the world: Top News, Entertainment, Health, Business, Science and Sports News - United Press International
Close - 13
Esquire - Men's Fashion, Cocktails, Politics, Interviews, and Women
Esquire is your destination for the latest news headlines, culture coverage, political developments, celebrity interviews, mens fashion advice, and food & drink recipes.
Close - 14
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
Close - 15
Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
Close - 16
The Spinoff
New Zealand's home for independent journalism, illuminating perspectives and good times.
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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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 62 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