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English-language magazines

  • Time (magazine)Time magazine was almost called Facts. Two 24-year-olds launched it in 1923.
  • Kirkus ReviewsKirkus Reviews was announced to be shutting down at the end of 2009. Weeks later, a buyer rescued it.
  • Fortune (magazine)Fortune magazine was almost called Power. Henry Luce launched it in 1929, just before the crash.
  • Georgetown Journal of International AffairsThe Georgetown Journal of International Affairs is run by students, not a faculty committee. It was founded in 2000.
  • Challenge (economics magazine)Challenge, an economics magazine, went dark for six years and then came back. It stopped in 1967 and returned in 1973.
  • Smithsonian (magazine)Smithsonian magazine passed one million subscribers within five years of its 1970 debut.
  • The WeekThe Week magazine is built from stories other outlets already published. Its UK edition launched in 1995.
  • Physics TodayPhysics Today took on the Star Wars missile shield in the 1980s. It treated the plan as a problem in applied physics.
  • These Football TimesThese Football Times makes a new print issue every two months. Each one centers on a single club or corner of the sport.
  • Philosophy NowFamed atheist philosopher Antony Flew signaled a change on God in a 2004 Philosophy Now letter.
  • Monthly ReviewA scholar's inheritance paid for Monthly Review, a socialist magazine. He offered $5,000 a year for three years.

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