The New Leader

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For the British socialist newspaper, see the Labour Leader.

The New Leader is a political and cultural magazine begun in 1924 and published in New York by the American Labor Conference on International Affairs. Its orientation is liberal but anti-communist. The Tamiment Institute was the magazine's primary supporter. The New Leader ceased print publication following the January/April 2006 double issue, but is now publishing a bimonthly online version as of January/February 2007.

Its contributors were dominant liberal thinkers and artists. The New Leader first published Joseph Brodsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the United States. It first published "Letter From Birmingham City Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.. Other contributors, who were generally paid nothing or only a modest fee, included Willy Brandt, Theodore Draper, Ralph Ellison, Hubert Humphrey, George F. Kennan, Murray Kempton, Hans J. Morgenthau, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Albert Murray, Ralph de Toledano, Reinhold Niebuhr, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, Bayard Rustin, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr..