I would suggest that perhaps you are not looking for news, rather entertaining, thoughtful writing. Maybe something like Lapham's quarterly, and other literary

I would suggest that perhaps you are not looking for news, rather entertaining, thoughtful writing. Maybe something like Lapham's quarterly, and other literary focused publications would scratch that itch? I have realised how much nonsense masquerades as news since using boring report (https://www.boringreport.org/app https://www.boringreport.org/app) but YMMV.