What's your favorite periodical?

[wtmusic]

Mine is, hands down, the New Yorker. The quality of writing is consistently amazing. Current events, poetry, essays, in-depth features. Dayum.

It used to be Scientific American, until they went off on their quest for extraterrestrial life, paranormal experiences, etc.

Yours?

[RandomKoolzip]

1. It WAS this one:

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3357015

But now, It's The Nation. I like Harper's a lot, too.

I used to like Atlantic Monthly, but lately thay just can't seem to stop hurling insults at progressives for no fucking reason. I guess they think they're courting the conservative market, but all they're doing is alienating their existing readership. I woulda stopped resding them a long time ago, but David Foster Wallace had a decent, if a bit inchoate, article on talk radio in Atlantic a couple of months ago.

[wtmusic]

2. Yep

I have noticed the same tendency in the Atlantic.

[I Have A Dream]

5. I canceled my subscription to U.S. News & World Report

I had a subscription to U.S. News & World Report for years. During the 2000 elections, I got so upset by their election coverage, I canceled my subscription mid-year. A year ago, Salon offered a free subscription to U.S. News & World Report, so I thought that maybe it changed. (Also, it was free, so what the heck...) It was the same as ever. I kept the free subscription so that I could compare it to Newsweek, to which I paid to subscribe. They were night and day in terms of how they presented the same news. I really feel as though Newsweek tried to be impartial and had columnists that were both liberal and conservative. The only weekly columnist that U.S. News & World Report had was a conservative man. (John Leo, I think.)

I still have my subscription to Newsweek and plan to keep it, and I was very happy to rip up the subscription renewal notice when I received it from U.S. News & World Report.

I also subscribe to the Nation, Hightower Lowdown, the Progressive, American Prospect, Mother Jones, and several other progressive publications. I feel that Newsweek allows me to have a little better feel for how the non-progressive press might view things so that I can better communicate with other people about issues.

[warrens]

3. Uncut

Best music mag ever. And a free CD with every issue, normally great new stuff. $8. What a deal.

New Yorker is second.

[catzies]

4. New Yorker. More Californians read it than New Yorkers do, I heard

n/t

[Ron Green]

6. The Nation.

I require a periodical that leans pretty far to the left just to keep equilibrium with the RW noise machine that's now everywhere.

[jmowreader]

7. Taunton's Fine Woodworking

I get my news here and from the British news sites, so no need for a political magazine.

I make money working wood, so I like Fine Woodworking.

[wtmusic]

16. What do you work on

tables, chairs, ?

[jmowreader]

22. Cabinetry and bowls

[supernova]

8. National Geographic

It's the only thing I read cover to cover. And the only thing to which I subscribe.

Everything else, I get bored with after about a year. After that, they start recycling material.

[streblin]

24. same here

been reading it since the fourth grade... wow flashback...

i read many but NG is my favorite... :toast:

[luvLLB]

25. same here!

[Bok_Tukalo]

9. The Economist

Scientific American is a close second.

(they got in a tiff a couple of years ago that was fun to watch)

[KG]

10. No Depression

a bimonthly magazine covering alternative-country music (whatever that is).


http://www.nodepression.net/

[NNadir]

11. Scientific American.

Good general overviews written usually by first rate scientists.

[libodem]

12. Harpers

I subscribed to Harpers, the Economist and the nation, last year during the election. It kept me sane. I didn't always read all the articles, sometimes just seeing the titles and knowing what they were about, made the political situation in this country tolerable. Now, I have DU. Took me until after the elections to find this place, but I'm glad I finally made it.

[nuxvomica]

14. The May issue of Harper's rocks

I don't usually see it where I shop but had to take a train trip recently and picked it up at the station. My gosh, what a great magazine and what a scary expose of the Dominionists!

[JimmyJazz]

13. The Progressive - It's even humorous at times:

http://www.progressive.org/durstdaily.html

;)

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. People...yes, and I love it too.

;)

[Zuni]

19. you are a brave woman Mrs. G

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Well...depending on who's in line at the grocery store, sometimes I

hide it under the bread. :wow: :hi:

[dajoki]

17. the nation

i saw eric alterman beat down scarborough and two other rightwingnuts on tv once, and i've been a fan ever since. like katrina too.

[Orsino]

18. The Funny Times.

Also New Yorker, Discover, SciAm.

[ThomWV]

21. Saltwater Sportsman

What can I say, I'm hooked on fishing.

[northzax]

23. I read five on a regular basis

in no particular order:

Wooden Boat
Foreign Policy

Nature
The Economist

yes, I'm a dork, and three are directly related to my job. Full confession, most just go straight to the bathroom and get read there.

[underpants]

26. Wow talk about a small world-we have something in common

Maxim
FHM
Stuff
Razor
Loaded

I read FIVE too

:bounce:

[northzax]

30. and I bet it takes you just as long

to sound out all the big words "boo-bie-s?

[enigmatic]

27. Popular Communications, Monitoring Times, No Depression

All great 'zines..

http://www.popular-communications.com/

http://www.monitoringtimes.com/

http://www.nodepression.net/

[Reverend_Smitty]

28. I would have to say The Nation

it knows how to push the right buttons and spike my blood pressure up every week.

that and the Progressive I love Howard Zinn and Molly Ivin's columns

[The_Casual_Observer]

29. Toss up between the New Yorker and Mojo

The trouble with Mojo is that at $9.00 you don't want to throw them out, but they take up a lot of space to keep.

[SarahB]

31. Mother Jones.

I really need to get my own subscription. My ex and I used to subscribe to it together. Loved that magazine. :thumbsup: