Directed by two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple, HOT TYPE: 150 YEARS OF THE NATION is a vivid look at America''s oldest continuously published weekly magazine. Centered through Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel, as well as an impressive array of passionate writers, the film is a journey into the soul of American Journalism. With unfettered access and unfiltered honesty, HOT TYPE captures the day-to-day pressures and challenges of publishing a weekly magazine, as well as illuminating hot the past continuously ripples through and shapes current events. It is the story of The Nation - and the nation - evolving into the future as it is guided by its remarkable past.