The neat thing about the Economist from your stated position is that it is utterly, ruthlessly internationalist.
College student? I might just go to the current-periodicals area of the liberry every week. I have no idea if that's still the case, but might be worth checking out at your place of education. You're going to want to read two or more, with differing editorial slants. The economist is good for one of them, but I also like Harpers, Atlantic, maybe the occasional Utne Reader, Liberty magazine Make a list of crap magazines not to buy.
They're the equivalent of that show that had Katie Couric. You might also check out Lapham's Quarterly to help with your perspective. Kind of pricey, though. As someone who is interested in the answer to this question I could not find any substance in any of the links you gave. All seemed to be unsubstantiated opinions.
Some of them were downright insulting in their arrogance. I'm honestly looking for good critiques of bias here, if you've got them. I subscribe to a gazillion magazines.
For "meatiness," definitely Economist. Christian Science Monitor's pretty good for world events as well. And nth'ing the Week for sort of an "overview" of what's going on in the world.
My vote goes to the Christian Science Monitor. Basically, the Economist has a financial bias and the CSM has a bias in favor of reporting human rights abuses. The Economist is denser, and the CSM is daily, though it has a weekly format the culls the most important articles.
If you read the Economist for a long time, the op-eds will start to infect your thinking about the world. I'm not sure if there's a house economic theory, but I do get the sense that they're fairly wedded to a particular world-view, though not exactly to the Austrian or Chicago schools or anything like that. Also, I'd recommend using Amazon for your magazine subscriptions, if you can.
Safer, and possibly cheaper. I work at Columbia University. The paper magazines of choice that I see undergrad and grad students reading are the Economist and the New Yorker.
The latter hasn't been mentioned so far here, but it typically has one long, well-written non-fiction piece each week, plus several other shorter news and culture items.
Much of the content is online and you can find student subscriptions cheap. Yup, the Economist. They're biased, though their biases don't match up with American biases I am assuming you're probably American because you're considering the three main US newsweeklies. However, they're very upfront about their opinions, and there's a great deal of information, very well-organized and condensed.
All of my friends in college loved reading through them after I was done. Once you're hooked on the newsmagazine thing, a few further suggestions: I tend to check out Foreign Policy and Foreign Affair s when I can, though those are monthlies. If you want to know more about foreign policy - and particularly the arguments of policy-makers and world leaders on various topics - those magazines will give you a great deal of information.
Very addictive. Harper's and the Atlantic though particularly the former, these days are left-leaning monthlies with a broader focus, but they generally have some pretty meaty articles, and help balance out the conservative.
The Nation and Mother Jones can be worthwhile as well, though their articles are mostly briefer. If you can get a newspaper subscription, go for the New York Times.
Mostly the websites, of course, but it's great to be able to view things through a foreign lens. If you have to get one of the three American newsweeklies, here's my experience: I did foreign extemporaneous speaking in high school, and at that point most of the topics were drawn from articles in those magazines. US News and World Report has the most foreign reporting.
Time articles tend to be the most in depth. Newsweek's somewhere in the middle. All three are fairly mediocre, full of a lot of filler articles for a while I was keeping count of how many times Jesus made the cover of each yearly , and tend to be centrist-conservative.
Seconding the New Yorker as the best in in-depth reporting. It is not a primary news source, however. A weekly trip to the library to read them all is a good excuse to get out of the house, too. The new yorker has a small section devoted to news, and it's excellent. I also believe that the best way to learn to write is to read good prose.
Newsweek,Time and their ilk are aimed at about a 10th grade reading level, but it won't do much to teach you about academic writing. They also cover very little news from a foreign perspective. I don't want to trash them, but your reading consensus, not reporting. The CSM is an excellent paper, except for news on pharmaceuticals ;- I prefer it to the Economist, but the Economist is a good magazine. I'd go for them both.
Kill your television. I've got a better suggestion: read Metafilter : posted by polyglot at PM on March 31, The Economist's coverage of environmental stuff is not good. It was not that they didn't cover it, but that their coverage was "we are applying our economic principles to things we don't really know much about. Some of their conclusions were very wrong. We were getting it at a shared house and one day, my two housemates with a Ph. They're great. Just not the be all end all on every topic.
While NPR produces some fantastic journalism, a bulk of its news coverage seem to come from re-reporting news from the New York Times and the Associated Press. The Economist. Another British export, the Economist magazine is staffed with excellent economists and journalists who produce a tightly-edited, factually rigorous account of what's happening in the world each week. One oddity is that the Economist doesn't publish bylines of their writers so you never know who exactly wrote a given piece.
The New Yorker. This American treasure publishes sophisticated narrative non-fiction pieces from top writers and reporters each week in a print magazine and, increasingly, on other platforms. The New Yorker is smartly expanding its audience on the web, offering to the masses content that used to be open only to its print subscribers.
The magazine itself runs a piece of fiction each week identifies it as such. The long-form non-fiction reports on politics, culture, business and other topics often take months to report, write and fact check. The result is deep reporting and analysis each week that is hard to find elsewhere. And the narrative structures and techniques the writers use make for enjoyable reading.
Similar to the Times, the New Yorker presents a progressive view of the world. Conservative readers should recognize that but not let it detract from them enjoying some of the best reporting and writing happening in the world. You can't exactly "subscribe" to these wire services. But you can trust reports from these organizations to be factual.
They provide a backbone of news and information flows about politics and the economy. And their member organizations that surface their reports benefit from this reporting. You can follow these organizations on social media and can also follow certain reporters for these organizations who report on topics of interest to you. These wire services also do have web sites and mobile apps you can use to stay abreast the news. Foreign Affairs. This bi-monthly magazine is published by the Council on Foreign Relations.
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The longer features always sparkle.
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