In celebration of its 150 years of left-leaning political and cultural coverage, acclaimed filmmaker Barbara Kopple turns her lens on America’s oldest weekly magazine. This tribute to The Nation captures editorial meetings and intern hirings, rewrites and reporting, as editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher emeritus Victor Navasky, and a team of contributors and staff think toward the future of an old media icon in a new media landscape. We join reporters in the field—covering Wisconsin’s 2011 recall elections, Occupy Wall Street, post-earthquake recovery in Haiti, and North Carolina’s Moral Monday protests—and watch the impassioned back-and-forth between editor and writer as words are reworked and stories are reshaped. Readings of articles from the archives link past to present and show the enduring nature of The Nation’s progressive mission: to champion issues of social and economic justice and, as vanden Heuvel tells us, to treat “journalism as a public good.”  EM