Your favorite political magazine?

[Faygo Kid]

Poll question: Your favorite political magazine?

There are many, many good ones, but I love Harper's the best. Lewis Lapham, Harper's Index, and brilliant articles every month about the BushBots. Used to put Atlantic Monthly first, but Michael Kelly (RIP) turned it to the Right. Your thoughts are solicited, and accepted with gratitude.

[gator_in_Ontario]

1. Macleans

I read alot of them though when I can get my hands on them.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

34. Have you taken a look at "Walrus"?

Brand new magazine; it seems to be the Canadian equivalent of Harpers.

[gator_in_Ontario]

39. I'll check it out thanks! n/t

[Hippo_Tron]

2. No Question, the Limbaugh letter...

OH Wait! You said political magazine. I thought you meant humor magazine. My bad.

[Faygo Kid]

3. Obviously, a joke - but Limbaugh is a dangerous joke.

Can you imagine someone with his baggage as a left-leaning commentator? He would be destroyed. He is the worst influence on public comment in American history, and yes, that includes Father Coughlin.

[T Roosevelt]

4. American Prospect

and then there's In These Times...

[ithacan]

18. American Prospect here too

http://www.prospect.org/

[JNelson6563]

19. American Prospect fan here too

Definitely!

[BiggJawn]

26. Some months the Prospect is the only thing keeping me sane.

And I leave it RIGHT OUT on my desk at work.

[Krakowiak]

31. another prospect fan

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

5. Dissent

...its really a quarterly, not a true magazine. Consistently good.

American Prospect is pretty good too.

[NoPasaran]

6. Texas Observer

[DemoTex]

12. 1. Texas Observer

2. Liberal Opinion
3. The Nation
4. The Progressive Populist
5. Mother Jones
6. Funny Times

[xxqqqzme]

7. I was once an

Atlantic Monthly subscriber also but dropped it. I love Harper's but for political I have to vote The Nation......or American Prospect........or Progessive.....

The Nation!

[Dr Fate]

8. www.democraticunderground.com

The wide variety of articles are updated minute by minute- with thoughtful analysis from REAL, Regular-Joe Democrats.

Where else you gonna get that???

[sweetheart]

9. Prospect (UK left political monthly)

nt

[Minstrel Boy]

10. Global Outlook

Relatively new Canadian quarterly, published by the Centre for Research on Globalization (The University of Ottawa's Michel Chossudovsky's organization).

Excellent analysis of our present crisis, and fully LIHOP/MIHOP.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.globaloutlook.ca/

[HEyHEY]

11. Other : Mad

SOmeone was bound to say it sooner or later.

How about adbusters?

[Faygo Kid]

13. You wanna go there? Then Zap Comics should be in.

Had to limit it my friend, but Zap Comics would have been in for incisive satire for this 50+ Boomer. Another post, another time.

[HEyHEY]

14. Until that day faygokid!

:-)

[Faygo Kid]

17. You got it. Watch for it, and vote early and often.

Not tonight, though. Have to hit the hay; almost 10 p.m.! (Geez, I am a geezer).

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

16. heh..Adbusters.

yeah, leave it to the Canadians to prick the mediasphere balloon.

McLuhan did it in the 60s, Adbusters is doing it now.

[Faygo Kid]

15. Three votes for The Limbaugh Letter? Uh-oh. Lurking FReepers.

Hope they remember to take their teeth out and put on their Depends before passing out tonight.

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. Tie between Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly.

Can't decide between the two.

[The Whiskey Priest]

21. There are many

Mother Jones if I must pick.

[justgamma]

22. I miss George. n/t

[Faygo Kid]

24. Ya know, I do too. Anybody remember "Eye" magazine, late '60s?

Similar to George. Just flashed on it; would love to see an issue of "Eye" magazine again. Think I got the first ever Blood, Sweat & Tears single through it being included in their magazine ("God Bless the Child," as I recall). Wow, memories flooding back. Probably alone in recalling that here (it can be a lonely place).

[Red_Storm]

23. The Walrus

from Canada, I saw it a few months ago in a local newsstand and was impressed with the magazine.........it's well written and usually has some interesting non-political articles as well.......I also like, In These Times and International Socialist Review.........

[AgadorSparticus]

25. The Week

It gives me a recap of the news both nationally and globally. Well written and extensive.

Also enjoy Mother Jones and Utne Reader

[Bushknew]

36. THE WEEK is awesome.

[AlFrankenFan]

27. The Nation rocks!

Best...magazine...ever.

And it's kind of odd, when my friends and I get together, they go straight for the teen magazines and I freak if they have the latest Nation issue :P

[northofdenali]

28. Although I subscribe to both The Nation and Mother Jones

I really love the Washington Monthly.

[corporatewhore]

29. Adbusters

[Doc_Technical]

30. Berkley Barb

Ah, the hazy memories of a bygone era.

[Ysabel]

32. zmag...

one of my favorites...

http://www.zmag.org/ZMagSite/curTOC.htm

[lostnfound]

35. Me too -- Z is best, but also In These Times & Progressive nt

[Iverson]

38. Adbusters and Z

tied for first

[REP]

33. The Nation AND Harper's

They're tied for first with me.

[rucky]

37. Sojourners

if you ever wanna learn how to sway a right-winger, or cite something they can't toss off as your typical "liberal rag"

www.sojo.org

[devinsgram]

40. American Prospect

[Robbien]

41. Salon, of course. I am surprised it is not even mentioned

And in its heyday before pay to post, their TableTalk forums couldn't be beat.

[chiburb]

42. New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Utne Reader....n/t

.

[wyldwolf]

43. Hustler

Just kidding! Calm down!

Although Flynt has come after the rightwing on more than one occasion!

[asthmaticeog]

44. A friend of mine works there

as a fact checker/researcher. I know, I know, I've already made pretty much all the jokes: "Can we get ahold of Name Withheld and make absolutely certain it was 'throbbing' before we run this?"

Anway, if you remember the Hustler-sponsored prayer vigil for the painful death of Bill O'Reilly, the guy dressed as a priest brandishing a bullhorn is my friend. He was also heavily involved in the Flynt for Governor campaign. Frankly, though I can't stand Hustler magazine, I couldn't be more proud that that man is my friend.

[wyldwolf]

49. dude! Hook me up with a subscription!

Again, just kidding!

[asthmaticeog]

52. You know, it's funny

When he first got the job there, he'd send me a copy now and then with post-it notes (at least I HOPE they were post-it notes *rimshot*) pointing to stuff he'd written. It was almost invariably one of those phony letters where someone has spontaneous casual sex on the job, loaded with groaner double-entendres sexualizing the jargon of the profession involved. He's WAY better than that -- we used to both write for the same music magazine, and he eventually became editor-in-cheif. In fact, he's the guy who gave me my break as a writer, which is part of why I cut him slack about writing cheesy porn now. To be fair, he does get to do substantive articles once in awhile (and of course the cool street theater stuff), but I find myself wondering if it's not utterly wasted on Hustler's readership, like when they run Greg Palast's stuff. Good on them for doing it, but it's still just a stroke-mag!

Then again, there are plenty of people whose best interests lie with the left but for whom The Nation or suchlike would go over their heads due to poor education. Maybe Hustler going openly libertarian/rad-left is serving a real need and purpose, I dunno. When you think about it, Larry Flynt HAS done more to protect the First Amendment than any politician or presidential administration in my lifetime. And how fucked up is THAT?

[foreigncorrespondent]

45. Mine is Newsweek.

Sapphocrat put me onto it, when I was living there with her.

I can get an Australian version here, but at the price we are paying for it, I can only get it on rare occasions. So now I read as much as I can of it, online.

[asthmaticeog]

46. Harper's

Harper's has come up in like three other threads this weekend, mostly because its March issue is so exceptionally strong. Hit the newsstand and pick it up, DUers, it will not disappoint!

Amazing how after a day and dozens of votes, the once-mighty Atlantic is still sportin' a big fat goose egg in this poll. I agree 100% with you, faygokid, Michael Kelly has ruined that rag. The loss isn't quite as tragic as the startling neo-con turn the New Republic took all those years ago, but it's still a big loss.

[gristy]

51. I subscribe to the Atlantic and read the whole thing every month

Who new it wasn't any good? I didn't...

[Faygo Kid]

57. I'm a Harper's subscriber; 22 bucks for 24 issues. DUers, take heed!

Or, 12 issues for 12 bucks. Yer cherce. The best value in America (and no, I do not have any connections to Harper's). Couple of pitchers and some salsa for two years of superb journalism every month? Whatareya waiting for? We need to support these voices in these times, more than ever.

[TahitiNut]

47. Nation, American Prospect, Harper's, Utne Reader, and Mother Jones ...

... are what I always brring back from the bookstore. Each one is great in its own right. There's no better essayist in the US today than Lewis Lapham. He's astoundingly good -- possibly the best of the last 50-100 years.

[Iverson]

53. Lapham ...

... is a very good essayist on political matters, but before you place him at the pinnacle of the last 50-100 years, better check out James Baldwin, who as a gay black man was writing in more difficult times.

[TahitiNut]

54. While Baldwin's writing talents were truly prodigious ...

... I wouldn't characterize him as an essayist. (Yes, I'm aware of Toni Morrison's collection of his essays.) Baldwin wrote novels and plays as well and I think most would be familiar with him through those works. As an impassioned spokesman articulating the injustice and plight of the disenfranchised in America, Baldwin was nearly peerless. It would be difficult to overstate his accomplishments as a writer. But I regard his influence to be more attibutable to his mastery of (and passion for) the issues rather than of the essay form itself. Lapham, on the other hand, seems to master the form in a manner that would place him among the best of the 19th century (which I see as the 'golden age' of essays).


On edit: No, I'm not formally trained in composition or English. I'm merely a dabbler, browser, reader, and trivialist.

[SalParadise]

48. Anyone remember Brill's Content?

We so much need a magazine like that again...

[sybylla]

56. Yes, wonderful mag

Got it for about a year before it went under. My subscription had just expired when I heard it went out of publication. I really enjoyed it. It very closely examined the media and blasted the whore. I wish it were here now.

[TN al]

50. The Progressive

[sybylla]

55. The Progressive here too.

I like Mother Jones and on occasion enjoyed the Nation, but the Progressive is the one I sit down with the minute it comes through the door.

[DinahMoeHum]

58. The Washington Monthly.

It has a reputation for being ahead of the curve on political issues since it's founding in 1972 by Charles Peters, a former lawyer, John F Kennedy campaign leader in West Virginia, and director of program evaluations in the Peace Corps.

Lots of today's journalists and authors (the non-whore variety) cut their writing teeth working as interns for this publication. An internship there is considered an "alpha-plum-job" (my emphasis) for an aspiring investigative reporter.

Visit at www.washingtonmonthly.com