Can anyone recommend such a weekly or monthly review? One that isn't particularly ideological. It would save so much time.
I find the Economist suspicious because no names are given for articles, and they contradict themselves every couple of issues. Well they used to about 4yrs ago when I stopped reading it.
For immediate news on whatever happening is going on I have a 4chan app as it's surprisingly an accurate source for unfolding events (Sam Hyde memes aside) and I can quickly regex the content. I also read the Syrian /sg/ general thread to get the other side of the war there as Syrians often post to it.
I try and find a book for anything else, Princeton University Press is great for this.
It is not as good as it was, as their editor was replaced last year.
(This freedom stuff has to be dosed carefully: owners moving themselves or their stuff, fine and dandy. Cattle moving around unsupervised or mouthing off, not good.)
English version can be found at https://mondediplo.com/
The Economist is good, but it's like the capitalist's NPR. Good content, but it gets a little preachy.
Proponents will argue that it brings scandals into the light of popular media, or that mockery is the only reasonable critique of such idiocy displayed on the show, to which I say knowing little about a subject and mocking the target is worse than knowing nothing at all - it solves no problem and only polarizes politics more. "It's only a comedy show" is no excuse when politics is rapidly becoming vitriolic, polarizing and dehumanizing.