Among general-readership titles, only Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and The Nation are older.

In 1988, Madalyn Murray O'Hair put out several issues under the masthead during the course of an unsuccessful attempt to take over the company; however, the courts ruled against her ownership.

[7]Morris Altman, Mark Twain, Robert G. Ingersoll, Katie Kehm Smith,[8] Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Clarence Darrow, Harry Houdini, Steve Allen, Paul Krassner, and Gay Talese are or have been contributors, subscribers, and supporters of The Truth Seeker.

[12] In 1995, authors Mark Fackler and Charles H. Lippy noted: "Under Smith and Johnson, the paper became more conservative and advocated white supremacy along with atheism.

While Northern European ethnocentrism had been an implicit theme since the paper's founding, its open racism and xenophobia offended many readers.