Library Guides: News and Newspapers: News Magazines

What are News Magazines?

News magazines, usually published weekly, provide more in-depth news analysis than the daily papers, and can provide valuable insight into current events before scholarly, peer-reviewed sources become available on a topic.

Selected News Magazines

Atlantic
Prestigious US magazine publishes 10 times per year on foreign affairs, politics, and the economy as well as cultural trends.

Economist
Access Tulane's subscription to the current issues of The Economist, the English-language weekly news magazine.
Economist: Historical Archive (1843-2010)

Mother Jones
A politically progressive American magazine reporting on politics, the environment, human rights, and culture.
The Nation
The oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the US, and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion and analysis. Online coverage begins in 1975 for most databases.
National Review
A widely read American conservative weekly journal of news and opinion founded by William F. Buckley in 1955.
The New Statesman
A left-of-centre British news magazine, available electronically from multiple Howard-Tilton databases.
The New Yorker
Discusses current events and ideas, combining domestic and international news analysis with cartoons, sports, fashion & arts, profiles, short fiction and poetry.
The Spectator
A weekly conservative British magazine. Recent print editions located on the 3rd floor display shelves.
Der Spiegel (Hamburg, Germany)
A German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. Accessible digitally via multiple sources, also in print.