Human Events

Human Events is a conservative American political news and analysis website.

On February 27, 2013, Human Events announced that, after sixty-nine years, it would halt publication of the print edition but would continue to maintain on-line websites, HumanEvents.com and RedState.com, with original reporting. Eagle Publishing, which acquired the magazine in 1993, said that it had been subsidizing the publication for several years but could no longer afford to do so: "the realities of the 24-hour news cycle and the brutal economics of a weekly print publication have become insurmountable".

Human Events printed 40,000 copies per week and had a staff of fifteen full-time employees. A "restructuring" plan that involved layoffs had already been attempted but was insufficient to allow continuation of the print edition.

Overview

Human Events takes its name from the first sentence of the United States Declaration of Independence: "When in the course of human events...".

The magazine was published in Washington, D.C., most recently by Eagle Publishing, the owner of Regnery Publishing, a subsidiary of Phillips Publishing. Thomas S. Winter was editor-in-chief and Cathy Taylor was editorial director of the print edition.