I've been reading it a few decades. I would say it's socially liberal and financially conservative on balance. More than once I've seen two articles arguing o

I've been reading it a few decades. I would say it's socially liberal and financially conservative on balance. More than once I've seen two articles arguing opposite sides of the same topic in the same physical magazine. So they're not afraid of opposing views when things are not clear. Right now, what The Economist hasn't twigged to yet is that Trump's specific task for Putin is to mess up the US-EU relationship as much as humanly possible.