Research Guides: POLS 330: Topics in Comparative Politics (HC): News

General News Sources

Economist
Financial Times (London)
An international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news.
HC: The issues from the current month are in the Morley Alcove in paper copies.

New York Times
Full-text access to news articles, blog posts, videos, images, and multimedia features. Covers 1851-present. Use the link New York Times for the most recent 5 years. It requires an initial registration but then you will have access with your password for a full year.
Bryn Mawr users: How to create an account for the New York Times.
HC users: How to access the NY Times
If you want articles in the NY Times more than 5 years old, use the Proquest Historical Newspapers link for a more sophisticated search interface.

Wall Street Journal
Help accessing the WSJ from Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore
HC users: Our campus-wide subscription covers the latest 4 years of issues. For earlier years, use the links for Proquest Historical Newspapers and Proquest Recent Newspapers.
Washington Post
This newspaper places a particular emphasis on national politics.
Help accessing the Washington Post through Bryn Mawr's site license (2005-present)
Help accessing the Washington Post through Haverford's site license.

Access World News
Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 8,000 newspapers around the globe. Database covers 1977-present.

Africa Confidential
This bi-weekly magazine provides commentary, news and analysis on issues continent-wide. Coverage from 1999 to the present.
Africa Research Bulletin. Political, Social, and Cultural Series
This journal is devoted to political, social, and cultural issues. It is published monthly and features analysis of recent events and issues.

AllAfrica.com
Provides daily news and information in English and French from across the African continent.

MideastWire.com
Provides concise, translated,daily briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing via the print, radio and television media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora. Covers 2005 to the present.
News Asia (BBC)