what print magazines do you recommend?

[OneBlueSky]

my subscription to Newsweek is expiring, and I see no reason to renew it . . . I'd like to hear some suggestions for alternatives . . . I'm looking for something with a progressive point of view that delves into the issues we talk about here on DU . . . I'm considering The Nation, but does anyone have any other ideas? . . . thanks . . .

[GumboYaYa]

1. Mother Jones, Utne Reader, and

Z Magazine are all good alternative sources for news and editorial opinions.

[roberthall10]

2. Look at Harper's

I think the Nation is very good (what does it say about America that it is regarded as so left-wing no companies want to advertise in it?), but I think Harper's is the classiest critic of Bush due to editor Lewis Lapham. Also, NY Review of Books very good.

[SiobhanClancy]

11. Ditto Harper's

it's excellent.

[shugah]

31. harpers is the only magazine

i have a subscription to. it is the créme de la créme.

[gristy]

3. Mainstream weeklies are generally a waste of time

I subscribed to USN&WR for a long time, but there was some piece of fluff reporting that really pissed me off and I cancelled the subscription.

I recommend and pretty much read cover-to-cover (yes, I have way too much time on my hands)

The New Yorker
The Atlantic
The Nation
National Geographic
Scientific American

[flamingyouth]

4. In These Times

The Progressive - also good ones. We get The Nation and love it.

[bif]

5. New Yorker

Not all politics, but it definitely has a let wing slant. And there's an article or two each week criticizing the administration. Simply the best magizine in the U.S. I'be been reading it since high school in the 70s.

[catzies]

16. Another good reason to get a New Yorker subscription is

so little of their weekly content is on their website.

And they have the estimable Seymour Hersh. :thumbsup:



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[Richardo]

26. ...and semi-regular articles by Jeffrey Toobin.

New Yorker is my favorite mag.

[Mz Pip]

6. The New Republic.

It comes out nearly weekly. Lot's of good articles. Had a terrific one on the WMD in the last issue.

MzPip
:dem:

[Bok_Tukalo]

7. The Economist and Scientific American

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[StClone]

14. Science News (weekly), too

Great readable recap for busy people on recent Science discoveries and news. Science is anathema to R-Wingers and staying informed is important to beat back the dogmatic anti-intellectualism of the Freep crowd.

[goddess40]

8. progressive press

The best place to get the progressive point of view is a weekly newspaper, "The Liberal Opinion." Some of the authors they print are Helen Thomas, Paul Krugman, Molly Ivins, Bill Press, Norman Solomon, Tom Teepen, Ruth Gadebusch, Ralph Nadar and Maureen Dowd. Their articles provide great talking points for arguing with conservatives or writing letters to the Editor. You can subscribe on line: http://www.liberalopinion.com or at PO Box 880 Vinton, IA 52349-0880.

[sweetheart]

9. the economist and prospect magazine

http://www.economist.com/ - global news, better than time newsweek national report and all that trash
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ - insightful, best monthly liberal publication in my experience
http://www.funnytimes.com/ - best cartoon monthly..

[prolesunited]

10. My list

Mother Jones
The Nation
The Progressive
Washington Spectator (Letting that one expire. Everything in it I've read here already)
Sierra Club
Read Harper's at the library


Let Columbia Journalism Review expire because it wasn't hard-hitting enough. Used to get Brill's Content and George before they expired.

And, yes, I have magazines (and books) all over the house. :-)

[DODI]

12. The Nation and Salon

I really enjoy that. The Nation in print and online is great and Salon is wonderful, I believe they have a special going on now. I too get Newsweek -- don't ask me why.

[CPschem]

13. Harpers, Nation, & Salon

can't go wrong

[GregW]

15. National Geographic

An oldie, but still a goodie.

[Lady Freedom]

17. Newsweek!

[Spoon]

18. Look for an AAN paper in your area here:

http://aan.org/gbase/Aan/publicationDirectory

AAN = Association of Alternative Newsweeklies

[cmf]

19. Right now we have long-standing subscriptions to

Harper's and Mother Jones. Every now and then I'll pick up magazines like The Progressive or The Nation and send it to my husband in mail drops to his submarine. When he's out to sea, he's totally cut off from the world and gets desperate for liberal reading material (I think the most popular magazines on the sub are either porn mags or porn-lite like Stuff and Maxim). When he's done reading them, he leaves them in the officer's head to piss people off.

[FARAFIELD]

20. NO BRAINER

Maxim, not even close

[DOS2]

21. Anything but O

.

[OneBlueSky]

22. thanks, everyone . . .

lots of good suggestions . . . though I have a feeling my one Newsweek subscription is going to be replaced by several new ones . . . :)

[boilerbabe]

25. New Yorker, The Progressive, The Nation, Vanity Fair! n/t

[BurtWorm]

23. American Prospect

Mother Jones
New York Review of Books
New Yorker
Free Inquiry
Scientific American
Salon.com
OpenDemocracy.com

[LWolf]

24. utne reader

mother jones
organic gardening

I'll leave the professional journals out of it!

[regularguy]

27. New York Review of Books

I'm totally addicted. I've learned alot and become a better reader and it's fun. Unfortunately it hasn't made me a better writer. :)

[Snow]

28. The Wilson Quarterly.....

It's published by the Smithsonian Institute, and is sort of an intellectual 'readers digest'. Covers a lot of ground, very thoughtful and balanced, and points you to places you wouldn't ordinarily look if you want to go into something in real depth.

[Interrobang]

29. I like...

The Nation, 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, the New Yorker occasionally.

[smallprint]

30. Zmag

i love chomsky!!!