Short form, Reuters and AP. PBS NewsHour is excellent if you prefer an audiovisual presentation. Personally, I find all of that to be too much of a firehouse,

Short form, Reuters and AP. PBS NewsHour is excellent if you prefer an audiovisual presentation. Personally, I find all of that to be too much of a firehouse, and prefer longer form reads. For those, I’d recommend subscribing to physical copies of magazines (or digital copies of the physical copies). Something about the pieces of paper or emails in my inbox beckons me to read. Some magazines (New Yorker, Economist, even WIRED) have first rate long form journalism. They’ll usually have at least one substantial article that’s deeply or tangentially related to current news blurbs, so you stay “in the loop”. Magazines are nice because they seem to respect the reader’s autonomy and intellectual curiosity, by avoiding tantrums, outrage, and diatribes, and focusing instead on nuance and themes. It’s a more literary way of digesting current events than twitter or what have you, and it can even be relaxing!