The Nation (anti-Biden magazine) promoted debunked claim that Russia didn't hack the DNC

[Katalino]

Here is the article written by Seth Rich conspiracy theorist Patrick Lawrence for the pro-Sanders magazine The Nation titled "A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year's DNC Hack".
https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/

Here is New York magazine in a piece titled
The Nation Article About the DNC Hack Is Too Incoherent to Even Debunk

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/08/the-nation-article-about-the-dnc-hack-is-incoherent.html
Here is The Washington Post article entitled The Nation is reviewing a story casting doubt on Russian hack of DNC
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/08/15/the-nation-is-reviewing-a-story-casting-doubt-on-russian-hack-of-dnc/

Here is the New Yorker's Raffi Khatchadourian on The Nation's piece:

Link to tweet

And of course Robert Mueller debunked this as well.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. I had heard The Nation was no longer a worthwhile publication

but I had no idea things had gotten this bad. Fucking shame.

[jberryhill]

7. Haven't looked at it since the 1980's

But not terribly surprised. They used to have some decent stuff, but always had at least a whiff of unhealthy influences.

[LisaM]

10. I stopped my subscription in 2008.

They didn't normally do endorsements, but they chose to endorse Obama over Hillary Clinton, while admitting they had no real basis to do so on policy. Of course, they'd been running the Cockburn (Hillary hater) column for years, but I just felt that was part of their give and take.

I waited for the letter I was supposedly going to get for dropping my subscription so I could let them know, but I guess they must have stopped doing it by then.

[samnsara]

2. i subscribed once and never read it.. was like reading a bunch of essays..

[Cha]

4. I liked it in 2001 when I got a copy at a newstand

in NYC.. it's actually how I found my way to DU and why I got a computer..

But, then it went downhill for me after President Obama got elected.

[Cha]

3. Thank you for this.. that's why I said on that "anti-endorsement"

thread that this is actually an Endorsement for Joe Biden!

[Katalino]

6. And their article is still up

They are still promoting the pro- Russia propaganda

[MarcA]

5. So that makes what they said about Biden untrue? o.k. n/t

[Katalino]

8. Obama must not have known the ugly truth about Joe Biden

But I respect your criticism of Obama's VP choice.

[MarcA]

11. A noun, a verb and Obama. n/t

[Katalino]

13. And a nickname from DU retroactively warning Obama

not to pick Biden.

[MarcA]

16. And again, the use of Obama. n/t

[Cha]

15. Oh that's so catchy! I'm glad Joe Biden is standing up

for President Obama's ACA and not trying to tear it down like BS and EW.

[pnwmom]

12. It makes them not a trustworthy source, like the Intercept is not a trustworthy source

even if they publish okay stories from time to time.

[bluedye33139]

9. I subscrisubscribedbe to the Nation in the 90s

and I cancelled after 3 months. It was the most relentless, negative, hateful attacks on the Democratic party and on normal American thinking. It was absolutely insane. Constant, constant attacks on every Democratic candidate and politician. No attacks on Republicans ever.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I spend a lot of time at the Hill, where they have a fake progressive who constantly attacks Democrats and is constantly pushing the Trump agenda.

There are a lot of entrenched forces in our society that attack liberalism and attack liberal candidates. Many of them pretend to be progressive.

[Midnight Writer]

14. I subscribed for years but let it lapse after 2016 when they went full scale Hillary bashing.

The worst thing was that no substance was behind the attacks other than "We Want Bernie!".

[MBS]

17. The husband of the publisher is a notorious Putin apologist

Katrina van den Heuvel, though no longer the editor of the Nation ( she stepped down in June 2019), is still the "editorial director," publisher, and part-owner of that magazine. More importantly, she was definitely the editor in 2017, when the article in question was published. I don't know much about full career and political history of her husband, Stephen Cohen, but I do know that he's a now-retired professor of Russian studies who has been in recent years a bizarre defendant of Putin - defending Putin's invasion of Crimea, and more.

My bet is that van den Heuvel and Cohen had something to do with the content of that article.

[OKNancy]

18. Saw this in GD - the Nation will help you travel to Russia

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212663714

Katrina and her husband Steven Cohen are hugh Russia lovers.
He has been called, ' Putin’s American Apologist’

Here is an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Is-This-Professor-Putin-s/241777

But these days, Cohen is better known for his views on a different Russian leader. In his columns and media appearances in recent years, he has become perhaps the most prominent defender of Vladimir Putin. "Putin is not a thug," he declared on CNN. "He’s not a neo-Soviet imperialist who’s trying to recreate the Soviet Union. He’s not even anti-American." The defense extends to the U.S. president, who has had some nice things to say about Putin. "The number-one threat to the United States today," Cohen told Fox News, is the continuing investigation of Trump’s ties to Russia: "There is no evidence there was any wrongdoing."

[Thekaspervote]

19. Katrina vanden heuvel editor for the nation thru April 19 is friends with wiki leaks Julian assange

[Gothmog]

20. I just got an e-mail entitled - Fill Your Gift Lists and Help The Nation

I had seen discussion of the attack piece on Biden and laughed. I keep getting e-mails asking me to subscribe to this so-called publication. That is not going to happen

[YOHABLO]

21. Centrist and 3rd Wayers of course don't like The Nation.

[revmclaren]

24. Supporters of Putin and the Russian hacking

love it though.

Not saying you, but many have and do.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212439167

ONLY!!! 2019 and beyond.

[tishaLA]

22. The Nation has been absurd re: the DNC hack

Part of it might be because of their seeming hatred for Sec Clinton and Clintonism. Marcy Wheeler gets into frequent twitter skirmishes with their reporter who has primarily covered the tRump-Russia beat because of his skepticism about the story (and many things about the Mueller investigation).

Their Russia coverage has more in common with Greenwald and Taibbi than anything else. On the other hand, they also have great columnists like Joan Walsh and they publish lots of important stories that merit wider attention.

[Gothmog]

23. The concept that Biden would withdraw due to a silly editorial amuses me

Link to tweet

[Duppers]

25. I stopped subscribing a decade ago when...

The editor bashed Al Gore.

F her.

[Fla Dem]

26. Why is this even being mentioned, it's a 2 year old article published 9/9/2017.

Then mentioned in a tweet July 2018, over a year ago.