Current Affairs

A Magazine of Politics and Culture

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A Current Affairs subscription is one of the best known ways to improve your life in a hurry. Our print magazine is released six times a year, in a beautiful full-color edition full of elegant design, sophisticated prose, and satirical advertisements. Experience our dazzling illustrations and amass our collectible covers. Much of our content is exclusive to the magazine, so subscribing is the only way to truly experience Current Affairs in all its brilliant vibrance. Each issue has puzzles, cut-outs, quizzes, and other endless surprises that will keep you reading it for weeks and weeks. We offer both annual and monthly subscriptions, in both digital and print versions. You can also "Subscribe and Support," which helps to fund new work and subsidizes subscriptions for low-income readers. 

Just the News

You'll get our weekly newsletter, the "State of Affairs," filled with all our latest work, and our News Briefing, a comprehensive round-up of the most important stories in the world.

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  • Weekly News Briefing
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You'll get the newsletter and News Briefing, plus a digital PDF of our beautiful, informative, hilarious bimonthly magazine.

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You'll get the newsletter, News Briefing, print and digital magazine, and you'll help us produce more great work, funding editorial work, writing, and subsidized subscriptions.

  • Weekly Newsletter
  • Weekly Briefing
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