What do people here think of The Atlantic? It’s better than other news sources, and I was impressed with it when I was in 8th grade. And some columnists, particularly Reihan Salam, are great (Reihan isn’t in the position of supporting *any* politician or party, so that puts him in a position where I don’t suspect him of twisting facts [even a little bit] to support his position—something that I do often suspect for people like Ezra Klein and other left-wing pundits). But even The Atlantic does seem to be too much in line with mainstream opinion.
Other than that, I get most of my analysis from Gene Expression and Information Processing. I’m not too much of an economist yet, so I don’t really read the economics blogs. FuturePundit/ParaPundit is right on many things, but its blogposts don’t contain too much depth in them.
What are the best news sources to read for *insightful* discussions?
I generally agree with Bryan Caplan that news is generally useless:
However, there are some analytical sources of news that are exceptions.
Personally, what I find most stimulating is http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/home.aspx . http://www.cato-unbound.org/ is also quite stimulating, although it isn’t contemporary news. Then on the more non-news-y side, IEEE Spectrum and Communications of the ACM can occasionally be great. And while Scientific American has dumbed down in recent years, the featured articles in Science News (http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feed/type/article) are *amazingly* insightful. Two examples are below:
http://blog.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/330593/title/Inside_Job http://www.comoogl.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/74456/title/Healthy_Aging_in_a_Pill
You usually don’t even get analyses like these in Science or Nature.
And http://www.newgeography.com/ is surprisingly insightful.
What do people here think of The Atlantic? It’s better than other news sources, and I was impressed with it when I was in 8th grade. And some columnists, particularly Reihan Salam, are great (Reihan isn’t in the position of supporting *any* politician or party, so that puts him in a position where I don’t suspect him of twisting facts [even a little bit] to support his position—something that I do often suspect for people like Ezra Klein and other left-wing pundits). But even The Atlantic does seem to be too much in line with mainstream opinion.
Other than that, I get most of my analysis from Gene Expression and Information Processing. I’m not too much of an economist yet, so I don’t really read the economics blogs. FuturePundit/ParaPundit is right on many things, but its blogposts don’t contain too much depth in them.