The Nation Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Hyper-Partisan Left

Reliability: Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates The Nation in the Hyper-Partisan Left category of bias and as Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. The Nation is the oldest weekly magazine in the United States, based in New York. Founded in 1865 by abolitionists, the magazine publishes commentary on politics and culture, with past contributors including Hunter S. Thompson and Martin Luther King Jr.

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for The Nation according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Reliability: 32.29

Bias: -18.73

Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst.

The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the sample content’s overall reliability score.

To determine sample content’s bias score, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting or analysis from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the content’s overall bias score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the Media Bias Chart®️ on the horizontal axis, ranges from most extreme left to middle to most extreme right. The reliability rating, demonstrated on the chart’s vertical axis, rates sources on a scale from original fact reporting to analysis, opinion, propaganda and inaccurate/fabricated information.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 40 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-40 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between articles.

Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to +42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right, and scores closer to zero being minimally biased, equally balanced, or exhibiting a centrist bias.

Individual Content Sample Scores

These are the most recent content samples that Ad Fontes Media analysts have rated for this source.

Content Sample URL Bias Reliability
What the F^&$ Happened to the Border-Security Bill? -16.67 35.33
We Are Witnessing the Biggest Judicial Power Grab Since 1803 -24 25.67
A Palestinian Whose Childhood Was Destroyed by War Pleads for Peace -11.67 40.67
The 24-Hour Rise and Fall of Nikki Haley -12.67 33.67
Concerned About Democracy? House Republicans Invite You to “Shut Up!” -18.33 23.67
The Trump Campaign’s Collusion With Israel -16 52.33
Trump Is Fighting His Indictment Like a Lawless Thug -14.33 30.67
The First Great Action Movie About Climate Justice? -13 32
FIFA Shuns Indonesia Over Palestinian Solidarity -16 36.67
Letting Go of the Border -18 38.33
The GOP’s Fanatical Judges Are Putting Our Lives in Danger -20.33 33.33
What Trump’s Visit to East Palestine Told Us About 2024 -14.33 31.67
Let’s Call DeSantis’s Migrant Stunt What It Is—Kidnapping -22.67 26.33
Monkeypox Makes It 3 Strikes, and Now We’re Out -16.33 31
Juan Emar’s Forgotten Vanguard -1.67 39.33
Why Can’t AIPAC Defend Israel? -21 32.67
Ignore Joe Manchin’s Comments About Biden and Democrats -18.67 31.33
The Supreme Court Has Just Invented a New Way to Harass Vulnerable People -22 26.67
Yes, the Theocrats on the Court Really Are Going to Overturn “Roe v. Wade” -23.67 26.33
The Herschel Walker Senate Campaign Is an Insult to Black People -29 19.33
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Long Pause Explained Racism and Sexism in America -23.67 20.67
Putin’s Not the “Genius”—Russia’s Anti-War Protesters Are -26.33 30
I Am Russian. I Stand With Ukraine. -1.33 31.67
What We Can Learn From Harm Reduction’s Defeats -16.67 37.33
Congressional Staffers Are Organizing a Much-Needed Union -15.33 41.67

 

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