<p>Just wanted to make a thread about The Economist, which is the best magazine imo. It's more international than, say Time or Newsweek, and it just has the best articles. The recent holiday issue was just amazing, with articles about consumerism, a Russian arms dealer, and 100 pages of just awesome international articles. It also seems to have some of the most knowleadgeable and unbiased opinions on the economy and politics. Anyone else agree?</p>
<p>It does have a strong liberal leaning, though.</p>
<p>It does have a liberal lean, and it is more international than Time/Newsweek.</p>
<p><strong>Because it's not an American magazine.</strong></p>
<p>So expensive, though! I'd definitely spring for a subscription if I could afford it.</p>
<p>Used to be decent now its crap.</p>
<p>I love The Economist. While it can't really serve as a replacement of TIME, it's definitely more international. Sometimes I laugh at how liberal it is. I really like the writing style, since the writers use more eloquent language than most American writers do.</p>
<p>I just read the online versions because the print version is so expensive.</p>
<p>I think in general the rest of the world (and especially Europe) tends to be significantly more liberal than the US (see socialism in Scandinavian countries, France, etc) They just have different tendencies...
As for the election, I think they were slightly biased in favor of Obama, but (as one of their polls showed), a large majority of the rest of the world supported the Democrat.</p>
<p>The Economist is about as Libertarian/Classical Liberal of a Publication as you can get. Ive read it for years and it supports nothing of social liberalism. The publication on numerous occasions has shown its support for free markets, fiscal conservatism, globalism. Yes its very liberal, just not socially liberal.</p>