Foreign Affairs Magazine

ForeignAffairs

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About this app

Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs. It is now a multiplatform media organization with a print magazine, a website, a mobile site, various apps and social media feeds, an event business, and more. Foreign Affairs is published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a non-profit and nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to improving the understanding of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs through the free exchange of ideas. (Learn more about CFR in this short video.) The magazine’s first issue led with a statement setting out an editorial vision that has remained constant ever since:

“The articles in Foreign Affairs will deal with questions of international interest today. They will cover a broad range of subjects, not only political but historical and economic, and they will be accompanied, when it is desirable, by maps and diagrams. Technical articles will be left to more special magazines. There will be numerous foreign contributors, but the fact that the interest and profit of the American reader are a first consideration will not be forgotten.”

“In pursuance of its ideals Foreign Affairs will not devote itself to the support of any one cause, however worthy. Like the Council on Foreign Relations from which it has sprung it will tolerate wide differences of opinion. Its articles will not represent any consensus of beliefs. What is demanded of them is that they shall be competent and well informed, representing honest opinions seriously held and convincingly expressed. We do not expect that readers of the review will sympathize with all the sentiments they find there, for some of our writers will flatly disagree with others; but we hold that while keeping clear of mere vagaries Foreign Affairs can do more to guide American public opinion by a broad hospitality to divergent ideas than it can by identifying itself with one school. It does not accept responsibility for the views expressed in any article, signed or unsigned, which appears in its pages. What it does accept is the responsibility for giving them a chance to appear there.”

Ratings and reviews

App is generally working well and is easy to navigate. However, there is something wrong with how each user's 'Up Next' queue is being synced. Between listening sessions the app almost never remembers which items were completed/cleared from the 'up next'. I will build a queue, listen to half of it, then come back later and the 'up Next' queue will once again contain all of things originally added. Very frustrating and makes me feel like I need to screencap the 'up next' before closing the app.

It's a pretty nice app, the interface isn't super simple but it is fairly easy to figure out. Like other reviewers, I had some difficulty logging in as a subscriber, but found that I could be recognized if I first opened an issue and THEN clicked the log in button. Otherwise, my only issue is that the 'scrapbook' feature only let's you save one item at a time, it would be nice to get a list of saved articles, like the one on the website.

A good app let down by horrendous audio features. Just like The Economist, this app has a nice interface with a solid presentation, and just like The Economist the audio features are God awful. I have 3 suggestions: 1. Allow for native playback controls (i.e. in the notification shade) 2. In the app player show us the timeline/time elapsed and remaining for the article we're listening to!! 3. Allow us to listen at 1.5 and 2x speeds

What's new

Bug fixes and performance improvements