The Nation.


Cher

Notting Hill reference

it without fail each week. A subscription to The New Yorker is an excellent investment.

Although The Baffler is not strictly political, it has good writers like David Graeber, Ken Silverstein, Susan Faludi, Thomas Frank, whose ideas on social politics, governance and policy making inform smart politics. http://thebaffler.com/current

Also, Foreign Policy, which is pricier than most subscriptions. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/

And Foreign Policy is another good one, though I think it is published by the Council on Foreign Affairs.

a larger contextual understanding of US politics.

And the New Yorker.

New Republic crossed over to the dark side a long time ago.

It's where I first heard of this thing called the "internet". "E-mail" sounded like a cool thing to try. I had a friend who read it regularly, so I had to give it a try.

I subscribe to that and Mother Jones, and usually read Slate and TNR online. Oh, and Texas Monthly, even though I haven't lived there since I was a kid 25 years ago.

Apparently so. There are still zillions of them out there.

I also enjoy this quaint data retrieval device called a book.

The Nation, Vanity Fair, This Old House, Architectural Digest and Saveur. LOVE my magazines.

The only mag I read these days...

are about politics, the ones that are generally are very good.

to read all the things posted on DU. Now I don't read those things at all. I go to a few websites these days.

Cat Fancy

we get the New Yorker and the Smithsonian, but I don't think I'd look to either for serious political discussion.

Also NACLA on Latin America.

Kind of specialized, but absolutely worth mentioning for those interested in Latin America who don't already know about it.

Before Hitchens went totally insane.

And I read Mother Jones and the Nation for years, but not lately. Maybe I'm getting old, but they just seem so predictable.

Well, and I get caught up in my own little area of public policy and neglect the broader stuff. That, too.

local happenings and classifieds.

Before the Voice bought them, they used to do some good reporting, but now it's just fluff too fluffy for the local news shows to run.

Online? Mother Jones and Alternet for the US