The Atlantic really does have at least one excellent long-form article in almost every issue. n+1 is hit or miss but the hits are just splendid.

Not much; I do have to disagree with you (hee hee - that's a change!) bout The Economist; I think they're very up front about having a point of view (and a very establishment UK one at that), and as long as you keep that in mind, their coverage of most things is far more in depth and direct than almost anything. I have little to no use for Esquire or GQ, which is depressing because I am a fashion person and there's so little useful men's fashion coverage these days it is truly painful.

I think another thing to keep in mind is that right behind newspapers, magazines are dying; most books are struggling to maintain revenue, especially on the subscriber side, and it's weakened a lot of them.

That said, if I had to pick 3:

Entertainment Weekly, because it's comprehensive.

Details, which has more style than GQ and better snark than Esquire

And Vanity Fair... though it has decidedly slipped in the past two years. But its online presence... not bad.

I'm a little surprised that The New Yorker isn't on your list, and interested to hear why.

I am as well, Brooklynite

The Atlantic
The New Yorker
The New York Review of Books

The New Yorker, Out (hey, I'm allowed at least one for just the photography), and The Nation are the three I read the most. I can't say though that I read any print publications with any serious regularity. The vast majority of my reading is now done online.

What weboy said. As long as one is aware of their orthodoxies (and it's usually pretty easy to spot the little fact-free zones into which neoliberalism can be snuck), it's one of the best rags around.

I love Cooks Illustrated, and TAP and Washington Monthly are not to bad. I agree with Christopher above on the Atlantic.

Atlantic

Harper's

Village Voice (less of a magazine, more of a paper)

so...

The New Republic

I stopped reading the Economist years ago when I got tired of their editorials that essentially said, "This policy for America would be great as long as the Bush administration implements it in a smart way. We assume that this will happen, so we support it!" Maybe they're less naive now.

Essential mags? The New Yorker and the Atlantic (though maybe less so now than when I first started reading it). I used to read Cook's Illustrated and switched to Food & Wine last year, but I think I'm going to let that lapse. Maybe I'll go back to Cook's Illustrated.

The New Yorker.

I can't read the New Yorker, only because of the cartoons. They are the suckiest things on the planet. I can't help but read them, but when I do I get pissed off that they were ever published. They're dry but with an insufferable erudite sensibility, predictably upper middle clas subjects and perspective, and just NOT FUNNY. The best they even aspire to is "smug smile." They're a humor abortion and should be destroyed.

If they eliminated the cartoons I could read it.

US Weekly, Star, and OK! Magazine.

What?

Actually, the Economist tends to be regular reading for me. Short articles rock!

saveur, wash monthly, nyrb...NYer,granta and fine cooking aren't bad as well. i had the same feeling about cook's illustrated as everyone had about the economist: once you work in a professional kitchen, some of their "short cuts" or "yankee prudence" becomes quite annoying (see bowtie-guy's comments about bread and bread machines).

The Atlantic
The New Yorker
The New York Time Sunday Magazine

I second the mention of N + 1 and I also think Wired is a hell of a good read each month. I read Harper's (and the Washington Monthly, and the NYRB) when the cover story grabs my attention. I also subscribe to GQ and Esquire and have an online subscription to the American Prospect.

Ah, the joys of a bus and train commute!

I have a mysterious subscription to Entertainment Weekly that I never ordered and no one seems to remember getting as a gift for me. It's perfectly okay bathroom reading, but I'd never pay for it. It's slightly better than the alumni magazines I'm flooded with.

The only other magazines I buy are for a plane or train trip, in which case it's The New Yorker, The Atlantic, or whichever architecture magazine has the most appealing cover.

NYRB (I'd drop this last)
[London Review Books is OK, sometimes, but doesn't have as broad a range as the NYRB.]
American Prospect
Science Magazine
New Scientist

Optional:
Economist
New Yorker

Esquire, The Atlantic, Harper's, and TAP.

Oh yes, and Baseball Weekly during the summer/early fall.

Cooks Illustrated
The Atlantic
Time or Newsweek to see what the world is reading.

Sometimes Vanity Fair (am I the only one that thinks that magazine is the weirdest combination of trash and substance ever published)

I understand why Time is on your list, since as a journalist you need to be on top of what they're covering, but it's a pretty craptacular publication. Less overtly biased than The Economist, but that just makes their actual biases all the more insidious. The bias in question is of course the standard which-ever-way-the-wind-blows bias, with some Republican bias thrown in for good measure. And again, whenever they cover something I know about it's terrible. I didn't renew my subscription a couple of years ago, and now when they e-mail me asking me to come back I reply that I'll consider resubscribing when they fire Joe Klein.

The New Yorker
The Comics Journal
Sports Illustrated

Brilliant post, Ezra. Captured my experience, too.

What are these "magazines" you speak of? Is it like a Kindle?

N.

Scientific American.
Atlantic.

no third

Harper's, GQ, and Esquire. Occassionally n+1 or Rolling Stone, content dependent.

Weekly Standard, National Review, Sports Illustrated

The New Yorker
Poetry
Litigation (that's an ABA journal)

Come to think of it, New Yorker poetry litigation would be a practice area I'd welcome.

Im so happy to read that more people then me has problems with The Economist. I used to love the Economist until I read their reports about Sweden (my homecountry) and they were very biased about the social-democrats. I think the economist is more and more a neo-liberal newspaper, very sad indeed.

The Onion. Tomorrow's headlines today.

The New Yorker

(I know it's a weekly, but it's better than most journals. I'm not religious about reading everything in it, but I can't imagine ignoring it.)

Poetry

(When it's good, it's unbelievably good. When it's not so good, it's still pretty good.)

Wish I could settle on a single third publication...I graze many.

But I know just what you mean about "The Economist." I stopped subscribing when I realized nearly everyone of their editorials had a three part solution, no matter what the issue...formula, much?

In These Times
Next American City
Orion

Time or Newsweek so that you know what they're saying on the streets
Harper's
New York Review of Books

if you eliminate the Time/Newsweek tier, I'd say Foreign Affairs.

Honestly, pundit magazines add nothing for me. Reading the National Review and Weekly Standard allow you to enjoy some common cultural ground with the people who also read those magazines and you'll have something in common to talk about. The same goes for the Nation, The New Republic, and TAP. I'm not saying that this doesn't have its own merit as a "signaling" totem or something that's enjoyable, but I wouldn't place any of them in the category of "must read."

Harpers
New Yorker

New Yorker cartoons vary a lot. Many have a kind of mean-spirited yuppie sensibility that is quite irritating, but many others hit the target. I especially like the caption contest. What annoys me more about the mag are the frequent voyeuristic "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" articles - practically one in every issue.

Harper's is so full of gloom and doom that it's painful to read, but essential.

I read TNR for many years but gave it up when it became "Arabs Suck" week after week, with a little smarmy political reporting thrown in (although the reviews were OK). Has it changed since the sale?

I think you should always read some stuff that is from a radically different point of political view than your own, because if you just read what you agree with, you will soon get mental atrophy. That's why I read your blog.

That being said, I think National Review is probably the best right wing magazine, and whether you like their politics or not, Ponnuru and Lowry are extremely astute political writers. Probably the best political article I read in the last year was Ponnuru on immigration, where he pretty convincingly argued the R's are screwed whatever they do in the long run. Goldberg is an entertaining writer and you might get a few tips for your inevitable blogger dream, the cash-in book deal (it's funny how the bloggers are so big on the "new media paradigm" but only can make money with old media books, but I digress).

I pretty much only read music magazines for none work periodicals so

The Big Takeover
Harp

and Archaeology for non-music interests

Scott, I submit that if you sit around reading pundits sound off on stuff in pundit magazines, you will get mental atrophy regardless of the diversity of such reading. In the same way that reading Time and Newsweek makes it easier to understand what people who follow the "conventional wisdom" are thinking, The National Review, et. al., give you an idea of where the fault lines and talking points within the Republican party are. That may or may not be useful to you.

The Economist served a useful purpose in (a) allowing me to read a weekly news magazine that didn't make me feel dumber after having read it, and (b) answering the question, "what do rich white neo-liberal british people think?" when it came to any given topic. Also, the weekly obituary is top-notch. You'd be fascinated at how there's always such an interesting person who dies each week. But at a certain point, I, like plenty of others, ran into the, "if this is how lame the articles are about stuff I know about, how am I being misinformed about the stuff I'm not an expert on?" Plus, after several years, you know what rich, white British neo-liberals are going to think about something (it's a pretty striaghtforward formula), so what's the point?

Because one doesn't live by political commentary alone (and I get most all of that off the web more contemporaneously):

Paper
Good
Monocle

The Nation
Speculum
PMLA

(and maybe the Chaucer Review...)

The New Yorker
Bitch
Harper's

ooooooo - that's soo hard, here are my can't do withouts:

TAP
The Nation
Harper's
The Atlantic
Mother Jones
The New Republic (just barely)
----
Candidates: Washington Monthly
The New Yorker (pricey!)

What is this thing called "Cooks Illustrated"? Is it distributed only on the east coast?

I have the same opinion of The Economist when they write about Technology and IT, which isn’t all too often. But I think the issue has more to do with the nature of magazines than it does The Economist in general. Would another magazine do a better job? Even when I’m annoyed by one of their articles, I find they provide a more rounded view then what I get from alternative sources.
Also, I image Dani and Ezra has this feeling not because of the fact that The Economist has a slant, but that its slant is contrary to theirs.
I have little or no time to read anymore (3 young children), but if I could read one magazine, one that was going to cover a wealth of information and views, it’s The Economist.

TAP
Rolling Stone
Atlantic

Used to read Economist but no more. Interested to give n+1 a try.

The New Yorker
Harpers
Scientific American

The New Yorker, and then two other issues of the New Yorker that I haven't finished yet.

Cook's Illustrated
Time
Bon Apetit

I don't think you can really just have CI as your only cooking magazine, because it focuses more on its niche (converted recipes and technique)rather than helpful things like city reviews, chefs and traditional recipes.

Atlantic
New Yorker
Entertainment Weekly

The New Yorker, New York, The Atlantic, Cook's Illustrated, Fine Cooking, Lucky, Domino, and US Weekly

And I'm an economist. (And a girl, clearly.) I rely on Mark Thoma, Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman for most of my nonacademic economics reading.

But I've been thinking about getting a subscription to the Financial Times.

The New Yorker.

Also, Ezra, you should make the switch from the Economist to the FT. I did and feel really great about it. The coverage is more nuanced and heck they even print op-eds from Dani Rodrik once in a while. Good stuff

Mathilde:

You seriously won't regret it if you get it. I love the FT and as Brad Delong often says, it's the best paper in the world.

The New Yorker

Giant Robot

The Believer (despite wide variations in quality)

GQ
The Nation
Rolling Stone

I read an absurd amount of mags regularly to be able to cut it down to three. One thing i would say, however, i do try to diversify my opinions and at least try to read conservative press as well to balance things out.

one quick point about the Economist: while i agree with Ezra's statement, the truth is that it does provide a convenient digest for the week. One cannot fault its impressive global coverage. This alone makes it readable regularly.

Harpers
Rolling Stone
Sports Illustrated
Advocate
Progressive
New Republic
New Yorker
Entertainment Weekly
Bird Talk
Nation

(I like magazines...)

Mother Jones
The Nation
the Atlantic

the new yorker
entertainment weekly
the sun

I read:

NYT Magazine
Dissent (well, a few articles)
Gourmet (the less-macho version of Cook's)

(of course, TAP too)

Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler.

... for the articles, of course (not).

There's nothing like the New York Review of Books. No one has covered Iraq like they have(e.g, "Now They Tell Us," by Michael Massing, 2/26/04) and "Iraq: The War of the Imagination," by Mark Danner 12/21/06). Plus, it will make you a more well-rounded person. Last issue had articles on Greenspan, Wikipedia, Iran's nukes, food, slave narratives, hallucinations caused by brain tumors, and the new Broad Art Museum in LA. It's essential reading.

Ornament, Bead and Button, and Beadwork. Thank goodness I do not have to subscribe to everything I read daily on the internet.

Wired
Scientific American
Rolling Stone

(I like my policial punditry online, though enjoy reading political magazine articles when linked to.)

NYRB
Gourmet
MacTech

Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
&
The New Republic
&
The Atlantic
& (a close 4th)
TAP

Harper's

Newsweek is essential for a sharp high-schooler*: mostly focused on the U.S., the occasional light article on global affairs, accessible.

The Economist is essential for a sharp college student*: it's exciting to feel strongly about ideas, to be well-informed about the world, to think like an economist a little bit.

Then, in your late twenties*, you reach the point Ezra describes. Self-confident opinions on everything just won't cut it anymore. You realize you're full of shit (if still pretty damn well informed). This is when the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Harper's become essential. You have to read a 45-minute* article to really know anything.

*I'll stipulate that you all emerged from Zeus' head already totally over The Economist, and that each New Yorker article takes you 10 minutes to read, so save it.

Clearly, this is an intellectual/masculine crowd, but just because they haven't been mentioned:

Mental Floss -- y'all might like this one. It's sort of like a magazine devoted to, not quite trivia, but just random stuff. Like it might have an article about sweet potatoes, or Eritrea. They have a blog you can check out.

Real Simple

I get Cook's Illustrated and Cooking Light, and essentially never have time to make anything out of them.

Everything else I read online.

The Nation
Harper's
The Atlantic

Cook's Illustrated
Food & Wine
Bon Appetit
Gourmet
Newsweek
Time
Nation
New Republic
Vanity Fair
New Yorker
Ebony
Jet
(I have too much time)

Both London Review of Books and NY Review of Books, but I'd say London trumps New York. And Cook's Illustrated. Oh, and FP.

The Economist jumped the shark for me sometime in the early 2000's, when the oh-so-knowing and snide neoliberalism started leaking out of the opinion pieces and into the reportage. I used to be able to either skip the opinion stuff or read it as oppo research, and still get a lot out of the mag, but now that I have to parse all of the reportage for bias too, it isn't worth the trouble most of the time. It's a shame, as it's the one thing that you can read to find out what's going on everywhere in the world in a given week. I wish there was a more left-of-center equivalent. Did that Guardian Weekly ever take off?

Other than that, I subscribe to TAP and Washington Monthly, but mostly just to support both of those fine organizations. I also get MIT Technology Review from work, which is a surprisingly good tech mag. But, almost all of my article-length reading is done online now.

A professor I had at the University of Chicago referred to The Economist as "Newsweek for Grownups." However, in my experience, it's more like "Newsweek for Model UN Devotees." That said...

Harper's: Yes, ideological. But their book reviews I find eminently worthwhile, some of their social/political articles are very insightful, and Harper's index is a must. I had a high school English teacher that would put Harper's Index on the projector for the first half of class every time a new issue came out.

GQ: Much more self-deprecating than Esquire, and much more informative. Thomas PM Barnett, Esquire's go-to guy for military stuff, has written mostly crap (witness his article "The Pentagon's New Map" which was a BS security-language defense of free-trade spheres and his suggestion in 2005 that we allow China to invade Taiwan if they allow us to invade N. Korea), and the timing on his article on Fallon was stupid.

And Gourmet whenever the cover is so mouthwatering I want to eat the cellulose its printed on.

There's a lot of Cooks Illustrated love here, but my biggest magazine rave is for Everyday Food. It's a monthly published by Martha Stewart and usually found in the checkout aisle at the grocery. It has practical, simple, and healthy recipes with great photography. Try one issue and you'll be hooked.

New Yorker
NYRB
Nature (for work, really)
N+1

and ...

Martha Stewart Living, my preferred nesting porn. (Wow! Who knew that you could do *that* with a glue gun!) My man is partial to Cook's Illustrated, but we both enjoy MSL's centerfold each month. So many pretty varieties of tea, heirloom [fill in fruit or vegetable here], obscure perennials, whatever, all lined up side by side and equisitely, tastefully photographed.

The Atlantic
National Geographic
Washington Post Magazine (just for Gene Weingarten)

These are mine. I have to say I don't know some of yours.

1) Private Eye

2)New Scientist

3)New Statesman

One tree produces about 16.67 reams of paper or about 8,335 sheets of standard business paper. One ream (500 sheets) uses about 6% of a standard "paper" tree.

1 ton of coated, higher-end virgin magazine paper (used for magazines) uses a little more than 15 trees (15.36). Using this measurement you will get about 1,100 magazines from 15 trees.

So one magazine consumes 1.3% of a tree.

that's why I don't buy them

London Review of Books trumps NYRB? that statement seems to have no purpose but to push pretentious credentials.

I go to London for business from time to time and for a while, being a rabid NYRB fan, I added the LRB to my reading list. But I gave it up. It's unreadable. Perhaps it's my American taste, but the unvarying tone of mock-self-deprecatory know-it-all-ism is just unbearable.

Paper & Carriage is an amazing creative nonfiction journal.

Saveur is always a good time.

And occasionally The New Yorker is worth it.

But if I'm in an airport, I do suddenly get the urge to buy a $6 economist and a $4 bag of chex mix.

Harpers
NY Review of Books
Tricycle
The Nation
New Yorker

z mag and le monde diplomatique (being located in Germany I have no first-hand knowledge of the English language edition but I assume it runs most of the articles from the French publication, the way the German one does)

Perhaps it's my American taste, but the unvarying tone of mock-self-deprecatory know-it-all-ism is just unbearable.

It's your American taste. To me, the NYRB reads like All-Bran tastes, from the tangible things -- layout, paper stock -- up to the content. Chewy, chewy, chewy.

(I just let my Private Eye sub lapse, with some pain, after working out what the cost of renewal would be in dollars.)

It seems TNR is a popular choice. No wonder the left is so weak. All y'all's politics are useless. You are a class of wonks, institutional fetishists and pseudo-credentialed think tank onanists.

You have nothing to say about the future of progressive politics and none of you will play any role in the social movements of the 21st century.

As a drastic, last-ditch remedy, I prescribe a massive, chemotherapeutic dose of Monthly Review. Only prayer and dreary Marxism have any chance of saving any of you.

Harper's, Harper's, Harper's. Plus Daedalus, if it's not too pretentious ...

The New Yorker

Américas (a bimonthly cultural magazine put out by the OAS and essential reading for the unreported cultural stories in the Western Hemisphere)

Smithsonian

Outside

Four Four Two (football magazine)

Portfolio
Monocle
Economist
Nation

that's my 4.

oh and I love the FT's weekend "How to Spend It" --- How absurd...

Scientific American (though I have lost some respect for this mag), Economist (don't have to agree to read this - its a good sync up on the world), Nature.

I guess it helped that I never thought the views in the economist were correct so it was easier to read.

The Hockey News
Jane's
Outside (barely)

Had subscriptions to most of the "political" magazines above but it was such a waste to read 1 or 2 articles and then send it to the recycle bin.

The Asia Times

(usually read on Mondays when that crazy Aussie, Spengler, publishes his well wrought madness.)

I used to read Forbes back when Malcolm was still alive. When his son took over the ideology took over. There was just too much Pravda to climb over to get to the business reporting. The Economist got Pravda'd some time in the late 90s. (Yes, I know, they turned right instead of left, but they made the same turn. The ideology is dead in either case.)

I used to get Cooks Illustrated. I loved their empirical approach to food. What's the best way to cook a roast? They'd try all 227 combinations and report on the results. Unfortunately, I have a vastly different food aesthetic. I think it was the article on getting the lumps out of your mashed potatoes. What's the point of that? You might as well take out all the potatoes. If they ever start publishing Cooks Failure Illustrated I might give them a shot again.

I think the reason the LRB is usually more interesting than the NYRB is that there are more new bylines in it. There are some great writers in the NYRB-- Luc Sante and Daniel Mendelsohn come immediately to mind-- but week to week it feels very repetitive. I was very happy to be given a subscription for a year but I let it lapse and I haven't really missed it.

Nicholson Baker's piece on Wikipedia was awesome-- but it felt really anomalous to me.

The Believer (despite wide variations in quality)

When it's good, it's very good.

I only get magazine subscriptions when one of the children in my family are selling them to raise money.

So I get:

Entertainment Weekly
Scientific American
Real Simple
Everyday Food
Cooking Light

In no particular order: Oxford American, Living Blues, Downbeat, The Nation, Austin Chronicle (best weekly in the country), Real Simple, No Depression (about to publish their last issue) AARP, The Onion (if only for the headlines "Shroud of Turin accidentally washed with red shirt") National Enquirer (I will stand in the longest line in the supermarket just to persuse) old issues of Spy Magazine, The Village Voice (though Robert Christgau was a complete pain in the ass, I miss his byline) Rock and Rap Confidential, The New Yorker, the NYT-Washington Post-San Francisco Chronicle-Austin American Statesman-American Prospect-online to assuage my guilt about buying the rest of these tree killers. For god sakes, can't we legalize hemp if for nothing more than to produce newspapers, magazines, and books and feel good about it? I can take my computer camping, but don't want to.

Atlantic
Vanity Fair
Vogue

I've been thinking that I need to start reading The New Yorker.

It's interesting Ezra, I have almost exactly the same reaction when I read just about anything by you on economics.

And if I remember correctly, you were one of the Obama-doesn't-give-enough-specifics bandwagon jumpers as well.

FP
Hoop
Bidoun

the economist bores the life out of me.

Risen is a good interview mag.

Atlantic

Texas Monthly

Um, the economist.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Foreign Policy-it's truly excellent, and Passport is a very good blog as well.

Mine are:
FP
Atlantic
FEER (Far Eastern Economic Review)
Economist
Rolling Stone
Mother Jones (sometimes)
TNR

Atlantic
Entertainment Weekly
Dwell
Men's Journal
Esquire
Penthouse Letters

The appealing thing about The Economist to me is that you get the sense that these people earnestly care about, say, fair elections in Kenya or the standard of living in Bengladesh in a way that few other magazines -- including few lefty magazines like Mother Jones or The American Prospect, even if they're not exactly indifferent to these matters -- do.

The unappealing thing about The Economist is that they so often approach such issues from a frequently-wrongheaded, ideologically rigid perspective that obscures as much as it reveals.

New Yorker
Harper's
Sunset
NYRB
DWELL

The Sun has an occasional great piece
UTNE is fun (still around?)

I love how it took someone stating that he preferred the LRB to the NYRB for the "pretentious" charge to be levied in the comments.

I love how that's the line.

I, for one, prefer Le Monde's Le Monde Des Livres.

I-D
Flaunt
Giant Robot
Paper
Dazed and Confused
Fader

NYRB
London Review of Books
Harper's
New Scientist (in lieu of a proper journal, and if you take the bleeding edge stuff with a pinch of salt)
Private Eye
Edge (if you're a gamer)

The NYRB is definitely better than the LRB, especially on science and politics, but the LRB has more of a UK and literary focus.

The Atlantic
The New Yorker
Harpers

+

Wired &
Foreign Policy

I assumed and "on dead trees" into the question.

Atlantic
New Yorker
Harpers
Vanity Fair

Collier's
The Saturday Evening Post
Ramparts

We're the crowd that crows about the importance of diversity in media, right? Now go back through this list and see how tight the grouping is. Amazing (or not).

New York Review of Books
London Review of Books
Harper's

On the LRB vs. NYRB issue, I think there's a definite but subtle difference. I think there's a little less daring, a little less boldness, in the NYRB. I think the NYRB also reflects a slightly more centrist sensibility. Nonetheless, they're both excellent magazines.

As far as diversity in media - it is impressive how repetitive this list is. I was actually a little disappointed to find I wouldn't be contributing much. But, I don't think the way to encourage diversity in media is to read random sh*t you don't like. I browse through other periodicals quite often, but these are the solid pillars of my reading. I think it's not surprising that certain blocs tend to coalesce around a handful of publications. It's actually a good thing, since we at least have some common terms of reference.

"London Review of Books trumps NYRB? that statement seems to have no purpose but to push pretentious credentials."

yeah, b/c NYRB is soooooo down to earth and unassuming in comparison.

I like Harper's and the London Review of Books. The Baffler is quite good too, whenever they get around to publishing it.

I sent a check into The Baffler maybe 2 years ago. I think I received one issue. Is it published in a hippie commune in Wyoming somewhere?

When I was young I used to throw down Newsweek and Time, disgusted with their butchering of the English language. That's why I liked the Economist: proper sentences with subordinate clauses and even semicolons! I was a purist back then.

I'm all over that now. Content trumps all. Purity in language is something up with I will not put!

TNR
The Nation
The New Yorker
The American Prospect
NY Review of Books
Harpers
The Atlantic
Baseball Digest
Ode
The Economist
Playboy - for the pictures

Billboard
The Nation
Harper's

Should have subscription to Asimov's.

Until very recently, The Atlantic would have been on my list. I've been reading their bloggers, though, and I have to say, it's really hard to take bloggers seriously as journalists. So when Yglesias and McArdle appear in the print magazine, it takes it down a notch for me.

It may not be fair, but reading Yglesias typo-filled, misspelled, and gramatically incorrect blog posts makes me suspicious of his actual printed work. And while McArdle at least uses spell-check before blogging, I've generally been underwhelmed by the quality of her blog posts as well.

Maybe it's just the medium. Blogging doesn't really lend itself to real writing. But it's kinda killing the real writing for me.

So, any suggestions for a magazine to replace The Atlantic?

The New Yorker
TAP
The Economist

Another great magazine is The Baffler, but it's been putting out an issue every 3-5 years lately. What's the Matter with the Baffler?

I would have to be partial to:

1. The New Yorker
2. National Geographic
3. TAP

That basically sums my loyalty to print media.

Reason
Rolling Stone
Wired

It seems that a lot of people are overestimating the knowledge requirement necessary to see flaws with the Economist.

I'm not so bright, but I've read plenty of Economist pieces where information and ideology seemed to battle each other. Sadly, information usually flew the white flag.

Back in December I saw John Micklethwait with Lamb on C-span, so I gave the mag a try again. But, it's still bad--not a good source of knowledge.

I still read TNR, Harpers, Fine Homebuilding, and Car & Driver. Sure, TNR and Harpers have flaws, but they're better than the Economist. And, 95% of my information comes from the net, so I'm not dependent. And, all sources are flawed. Check out the last six paragraphs of this AP story.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080315/D8VE2LE85.html

This is an unquestioned dissemination of manipulative/wrong campaign talking points that don't seem to fit the "Michigan Revote" headline.

The Rezko stuff is especially silly to anyone familiar (obviously not Beth Fouhy) with the recent activity involving the Chicago press and BHO.

You know, you should all read Technology Review at least once a year, if only for their "35 Top Innovators Under 35" issue so that you can remind yourself how you have failed in life, particularly if you have to read profiles about people you actually went to college with.

The Nation
Gambit Weekly

everything else I read online.

Every issue:
The Atlantic
American Prospect
The New Republic
NYRB
Slate (I read all of them online, so I count this one too)

When an article interests me or when the cover is pretty:

Washington Monthly
Discover
Popular Mechanics
Vanity Fair
New Yorker

I despise the Economist for the reasons you said. There is also a good conversation over at Crooked Timber as to why that magazine sucks

1. Virginia Quarterly Review (talk about long form essays! this is a treasure trove)

2. Bitch Magazine

3. Women's eNews

4. Orion Magazine

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The New Yorker
Outside
Gray's Sporting Journal

TNR hasn't been any good for at least 10 years.