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My personal favorite recommendation in this vein is The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ . They've got some great writers an

by ff317 5y ago

My personal favorite recommendation in this vein is The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ . They've got some great writers and editors and often deliver pretty unique insights. Their articles tend towards long-ish-form, but not nearly as long as e.g. the New Yorker. They're a little less world-focused and more US-centric, but not completely. There is some bias (isn't there always?), but I've seen them cover a single issue from multiple POVs using multiple writers before. They have a print edition as well, for ~$70/year (includes digital access as well).

drenvuk 5y ago
The Atlantic. The New Yorker. The Economist. These are neutral to left facing. In a feeble effort to avoid being put in a different bubble, does anyone have something that an educated republican/conservative would read?
- lordgrenville 5y ago
  My recommendation for that would be https://www.nationalaffairs.com/ https://www.nationalaffairs.com/ Thoughtful and driven by social science.
- mrkstu 5y ago
  Realclearpolitics has started providing some original content to go with their aggregation. Tends to be non-reactionary 'traditional' Republican leaning.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > The Atlantic. The New Yorker. The Economist. These are neutral to left facing. No, they aren’t, especially the Economist, which is aggressively center-right pro-capitalist.
- sosborn 5y ago
  https://www.reuters.com/ https://www.reuters.com/
- deleted 5y ago
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- hguant 5y ago
  Wall Street Journal - there's a quip from someone that when he wanted to read things he agreed with, he opened Jacobin, when he wanted to know what was going on in the world, he went to WSJ. Being based entirely on serving money anchors you to a certain reality that can't be swung to far left or right. The journalism has had some really great scoops these last few years - they broke a lot of the Facebook drama, and some tax evasion shenanigans - while the editorials tend to be pretty principled conservatism ("we'll give a voice to anyone, but we'll put a letter from the Editors in where we call them liars" seems to be their approach to Trump and co). National Review is similar to The Atlantic in that their long form pieces meant for print publication are wonderful, and tend to be rather nuanced, whiletheir short pieces meant for immediate internet consumption are heavily biased. They're interesting in that they take a "big tent" approach, and will allow a lont of dissenting voices to appear under their mast head - this was always true but became really rather evident during the 2016 elections. The Dispatch is made up of authors and editors who didn't like that Trump supporters were allowed under the "Big Tent" of the National Review. It's edited by Jonah Goldberg, and David French, who shows up as a guest writer for the Atlantic every now and then.
- andrepd 5y ago
  That someone can honestly say with a straight face that "the Economist is left-facing" speaks volumes to the sad state of the Overton window.
  - dragonwriter 5y ago
    > That someone can honestly say with a straight face that "the Economist is left-facing" speaks volumes to the sad state of the Overton window. Or that they are viewing things entirely through the lens of American culture war dimension of politics (where the Economist might fit in the neutral to left-facing description), rather than the usual left-right economic spectrum, where it is agressively center-right.
  - lodovic 5y ago
    You keep repeating the Economist is rightwing in this thread, but it seems most here disagree with you. I mean, Fox, Breitbart or the NY Post are pretty much rightwing, and the Economist does not even compare, both in tone and in content. What puts them in the right wing camp according to yo?
    - psd1 5y ago
      What is "left" and what is "right" is a question of consensus, of course. The Eke is surely considered right-wing in Britain, and likely in most of Europe.
    - tmnvix 5y ago
      Growing up in NZ, If you championed free market capitalism and privatisation, you would definitely be considered right wing. That is the Economist's bread and butter. That NZ's major left wing party was and is still a big proponent of these policies didn't change that. Today, it could be argued that neoliberalism has moved the overton window, but many, many people still don't buy it.
      - hgomersall 5y ago
        I'm not sure it does "champion privatisation". I've read some pretty damning reports on bad privatisation, for example about the problems from rail privatisation, as well as on monopolistic practice by big companies. I would say it's rather more nuanced than private good, public bad.
- el_ravager 5y ago
  None of those publications are leftist in the least. However, they do all happen to share a very strong neoliberal bias—which would put one in more of a corporate centrist bubble—akin to watching just CNN and MSNBC on cable. If you want news without extra commentary, just go straight to Reuters and/or AP.
- disillusioned 5y ago
  Reason?
  - sgjohnson 5y ago
    That's Libertarian, not Republican, and it's not a news site, it's more of a magazine. It's often a good read nonetheless, but it's not a news site.
- Lord_Baltimore 5y ago
  I highly recommend The Dispatch. They make a point of not being click-baity and try to give thoughtful takes instead of reactionary ones.
- inopinatus 5y ago
  Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
- ahthat 5y ago
  Anything by The Hoover Institution Really great, conservative, and academic stuff. Highly regarded by many. Excellent publications, and whole video series on YouTube are free to watch
  - refurb 5y ago
    Agree there. Econlib podcasts by Russ Robert of the Hoover Institute are fantastic. He has a range of guests on, seeks to understand opposing views and it’s more of an academic discussion. His podcasts about the 2008 financial crisis were fantastic.
bleuchase 5y ago
And most importantly it’s owned by the billionaire widow of Steve Jobs who also hangs out with Ghislaine Maxwell https://news.yahoo.com/steve-jobs-widow-takes-stake-atlantic-magazine-141322459.html https://news.yahoo.com/steve-jobs-widow-takes-stake-atlantic... https://www.twitter.com/austerewyatt1/status/1469675190917423114?lang=en https://www.twitter.com/austerewyatt1/status/146967519091742...
meatsauce 5y ago
I like reading the Atlantic when I want to know which propaganda the DNC is pushing for the day.
ROTMetro 5y ago
I friggin love the Atlantic even though most of the time they have a way different political view than me. They don't hide their view but instead of assuming it's universal they give details and context for their views, where as the Economist seems to hide their agenda and present the underlying story to lead you to their point of view based on the facts and details they choose to report. The Atlantic has discourse and discussion, which is what I want. And they are not afraid to challenge their own core ideas. They are like my liberal hippie parents raising me with critical thinking skills, "you are free to have your opinion, here's ours and here's how we came to them". It's hard to explain the difference, especially as I agree (or I should say want to agree) more often with the Economist's politics.
- mastazi 5y ago
  > the Economist seems to hide their agenda I think that they are pretty clear about their agenda to be honest. E.g. they explained and even gave a name to their stance ("extreme centre"), they openly endorse candidates in many elections worldwide, they often include sentences in articles such as "this paper believes that..." etc. I don't agree with some of their points, but by making them explicit they also make them easy to filter out IMHO
  - thrashh 5y ago
    Yeah the Economist is pretty well known to be neoliberal. Which is fine… I subscribe and it’s a pretty good source if you understand that.
    - strictlybiznes 5y ago
      Neocon*
      - Clubber 5y ago
        Neoliberalism is not related to liberalism, its economics theory we've been living in since Reagan. Ds and Rs embrace it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism Neoconservatism is more a social theory, i.e. pushback from 60s social liberals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
pklausler 5y ago
I loved the Atlantic until they started sponsoring "happiness" seminars with Deepak Chopra.
- simondotau 5y ago
  Really? That's disappointing for an organisation with so many intelligent columnists.
  - cyberpunk 5y ago
    At some point the employee wellness budget is just burning a hole in your pocket and so you put it to a vote. I wouldn’t feel too bad about it. Deepak is a charlatan and everyone knows it anyway :)
    - andrei_says_ 5y ago
      But I hear his retreats are very expensive and luxurious.
- dijonman2 5y ago
  Can you explain what the issue is with this? I don’t understand the reference.
  - pixiemagic 5y ago
    Deepak Chopra is a prominent and controversial figure in "wellness" and "alternative medicine", promoting "quantum healing" and claiming that it can cure cancer and so on. It's widely accused of being psuedoscience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra
disqard 5y ago
Here's another vote for The Atlantic. They are also the only online website (AFAIK) where, once you pay for a subscription, you actually get an ad-free experience.
JohnWhigham 5y ago
Atlantic truly is all over the map. They'll have articles like the watershed Coddling of the American Mind from 2015, but then shortly after it's nothing but Trump 24/7 like every other outlet.

by ff317 5y ago

drenvuk 5y ago

The Atlantic. The New Yorker. The Economist. These are neutral to left facing. In a feeble effort to avoid being put in a different bubble, does anyone have something that an educated republican/conservative would read?

lordgrenville 5y ago
My recommendation for that would be https://www.nationalaffairs.com/ https://www.nationalaffairs.com/ Thoughtful and driven by social science.
mrkstu 5y ago
Realclearpolitics has started providing some original content to go with their aggregation. Tends to be non-reactionary 'traditional' Republican leaning.
dragonwriter 5y ago
> The Atlantic. The New Yorker. The Economist. These are neutral to left facing. No, they aren’t, especially the Economist, which is aggressively center-right pro-capitalist.
sosborn 5y ago
https://www.reuters.com/ https://www.reuters.com/
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hguant 5y ago
Wall Street Journal - there's a quip from someone that when he wanted to read things he agreed with, he opened Jacobin, when he wanted to know what was going on in the world, he went to WSJ. Being based entirely on serving money anchors you to a certain reality that can't be swung to far left or right. The journalism has had some really great scoops these last few years - they broke a lot of the Facebook drama, and some tax evasion shenanigans - while the editorials tend to be pretty principled conservatism ("we'll give a voice to anyone, but we'll put a letter from the Editors in where we call them liars" seems to be their approach to Trump and co). National Review is similar to The Atlantic in that their long form pieces meant for print publication are wonderful, and tend to be rather nuanced, whiletheir short pieces meant for immediate internet consumption are heavily biased. They're interesting in that they take a "big tent" approach, and will allow a lont of dissenting voices to appear under their mast head - this was always true but became really rather evident during the 2016 elections. The Dispatch is made up of authors and editors who didn't like that Trump supporters were allowed under the "Big Tent" of the National Review. It's edited by Jonah Goldberg, and David French, who shows up as a guest writer for the Atlantic every now and then.
andrepd 5y ago
That someone can honestly say with a straight face that "the Economist is left-facing" speaks volumes to the sad state of the Overton window.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > That someone can honestly say with a straight face that "the Economist is left-facing" speaks volumes to the sad state of the Overton window. Or that they are viewing things entirely through the lens of American culture war dimension of politics (where the Economist might fit in the neutral to left-facing description), rather than the usual left-right economic spectrum, where it is agressively center-right.
- lodovic 5y ago
  You keep repeating the Economist is rightwing in this thread, but it seems most here disagree with you. I mean, Fox, Breitbart or the NY Post are pretty much rightwing, and the Economist does not even compare, both in tone and in content. What puts them in the right wing camp according to yo?
  - psd1 5y ago
    What is "left" and what is "right" is a question of consensus, of course. The Eke is surely considered right-wing in Britain, and likely in most of Europe.
  - tmnvix 5y ago
    Growing up in NZ, If you championed free market capitalism and privatisation, you would definitely be considered right wing. That is the Economist's bread and butter. That NZ's major left wing party was and is still a big proponent of these policies didn't change that. Today, it could be argued that neoliberalism has moved the overton window, but many, many people still don't buy it.
    - hgomersall 5y ago
      I'm not sure it does "champion privatisation". I've read some pretty damning reports on bad privatisation, for example about the problems from rail privatisation, as well as on monopolistic practice by big companies. I would say it's rather more nuanced than private good, public bad.
el_ravager 5y ago
None of those publications are leftist in the least. However, they do all happen to share a very strong neoliberal bias—which would put one in more of a corporate centrist bubble—akin to watching just CNN and MSNBC on cable. If you want news without extra commentary, just go straight to Reuters and/or AP.
disillusioned 5y ago
Reason?
- sgjohnson 5y ago
  That's Libertarian, not Republican, and it's not a news site, it's more of a magazine. It's often a good read nonetheless, but it's not a news site.
Lord_Baltimore 5y ago
I highly recommend The Dispatch. They make a point of not being click-baity and try to give thoughtful takes instead of reactionary ones.
inopinatus 5y ago
Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
ahthat 5y ago
Anything by The Hoover Institution Really great, conservative, and academic stuff. Highly regarded by many. Excellent publications, and whole video series on YouTube are free to watch
- refurb 5y ago
  Agree there. Econlib podcasts by Russ Robert of the Hoover Institute are fantastic. He has a range of guests on, seeks to understand opposing views and it’s more of an academic discussion. His podcasts about the 2008 financial crisis were fantastic.

bleuchase 5y ago

And most importantly it’s owned by the billionaire widow of Steve Jobs who also hangs out with Ghislaine Maxwell https://news.yahoo.com/steve-jobs-widow-takes-stake-atlantic-magazine-141322459.html https://news.yahoo.com/steve-jobs-widow-takes-stake-atlantic... https://www.twitter.com/austerewyatt1/status/1469675190917423114?lang=en https://www.twitter.com/austerewyatt1/status/146967519091742...

meatsauce 5y ago

I like reading the Atlantic when I want to know which propaganda the DNC is pushing for the day.

ROTMetro 5y ago

I friggin love the Atlantic even though most of the time they have a way different political view than me. They don't hide their view but instead of assuming it's universal they give details and context for their views, where as the Economist seems to hide their agenda and present the underlying story to lead you to their point of view based on the facts and details they choose to report. The Atlantic has discourse and discussion, which is what I want. And they are not afraid to challenge their own core ideas. They are like my liberal hippie parents raising me with critical thinking skills, "you are free to have your opinion, here's ours and here's how we came to them". It's hard to explain the difference, especially as I agree (or I should say want to agree) more often with the Economist's politics.

mastazi 5y ago
> the Economist seems to hide their agenda I think that they are pretty clear about their agenda to be honest. E.g. they explained and even gave a name to their stance ("extreme centre"), they openly endorse candidates in many elections worldwide, they often include sentences in articles such as "this paper believes that..." etc. I don't agree with some of their points, but by making them explicit they also make them easy to filter out IMHO
- thrashh 5y ago
  Yeah the Economist is pretty well known to be neoliberal. Which is fine… I subscribe and it’s a pretty good source if you understand that.
  - strictlybiznes 5y ago
    Neocon*
    - Clubber 5y ago
      Neoliberalism is not related to liberalism, its economics theory we've been living in since Reagan. Ds and Rs embrace it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism Neoconservatism is more a social theory, i.e. pushback from 60s social liberals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism

pklausler 5y ago

I loved the Atlantic until they started sponsoring "happiness" seminars with Deepak Chopra.

simondotau 5y ago
Really? That's disappointing for an organisation with so many intelligent columnists.
- cyberpunk 5y ago
  At some point the employee wellness budget is just burning a hole in your pocket and so you put it to a vote. I wouldn’t feel too bad about it. Deepak is a charlatan and everyone knows it anyway :)
  - andrei_says_ 5y ago
    But I hear his retreats are very expensive and luxurious.
dijonman2 5y ago
Can you explain what the issue is with this? I don’t understand the reference.
- pixiemagic 5y ago
  Deepak Chopra is a prominent and controversial figure in "wellness" and "alternative medicine", promoting "quantum healing" and claiming that it can cure cancer and so on. It's widely accused of being psuedoscience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra

disqard 5y ago

Here's another vote for The Atlantic. They are also the only online website (AFAIK) where, once you pay for a subscription, you actually get an ad-free experience.

JohnWhigham 5y ago

Atlantic truly is all over the map. They'll have articles like the watershed Coddling of the American Mind from 2015, but then shortly after it's nothing but Trump 24/7 like every other outlet.