NYT (and The Economist) are IMO pretty good but they're expensive--especially relative to free. If I were in school or just out of it, I probably wouldn't pay f

NYT (and The Economist) are IMO pretty good but they're expensive--especially relative to free. If I were in school or just out of it, I probably wouldn't pay for them like I did for Time and Newsweek when that was more or less your source of news other than subscribing to the big city newspaper or watching the evening news. There are good magazines out there but overall there's been a decline in quality and, at least in the political/cultural arena, they're mostly some rich person's pet project--though that was historically also the case to some degree.