They became politically woke and unbearable in the 1990s, much like National Geographic. I stopped reading both in that time frame.
Same here and for precisely the same reasons.
Yup, me too.
I was a faithful subscriber from the early '60s to mid '90s and had two contributions to the mag. Every now and then I'll see a cover at the market and they usually make me gag.
+1
Hated to let National Geographic go. The photos were good.
Haven’t picked one up this century.
I cancelled my subscriptions to both magazines in the late 1990s. Same for Skeptical Inquirer magazine. When I got my first real job in the late 1970s, I spent part of my small take home pay for subscriptions to all three magazines. Everything was fine for a number of years, but then all three magazines started belittling and berating anyone who offered any pushback on their increasingly left wing viewpoints. I was sad to see them go down that path, especially Scientific American.