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Off topic, but I recommend getting a subscription of The Economist. Totally worth the money, and the weekly format combined with an almost complete lack of bias gives a nice leisurely pace to catch up with world's events.

Agreed. The Economist has a bias towards free markets and free press but they are clear on those points. They do a lot of things to stay as unbiased as possible, like avoiding attaching a single name to a byline for a story.

Even Karl Marx read The Economist, for what it’s worth.

> They do a lot of things to stay as unbiased as possible, like avoiding attaching a single name to a byline for a story.

I don't actually understand this. I personally find that following specific authors whose journalism I find of high quality is a lot more efficient use of my time than following publications. Why does The Economist make this needlessly difficult, and what's the benefit of doing so?

Matter of taste I suppose. It's more like Wikipedia than other modern journalism.

Some journalists use pseudonyms, for example Banyan, Butterwood: https://www.italki.com/question/377016

Edit: I'd say it has the effect of reducing the impact of ego on writing.

The benefit is that it allows the content of the articles to stand on their own merits, instead of involving the reputation of the author.

>The benefit is that it allows the content of the articles to stand on their own merits, instead of involving the reputation of the author.

Exactly. Who emphasis should be on "is this true/ a good point?" over "is this someone I think I should agree with already?"

The Economist has hardcore bias. Very neoliberal.

Not according to those guys:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-economist/

For example, they endorsed both Democratic and Republican candidates for president in the past.

I'm just going by what I have read. My ex cofounder was subscribed so I read it quite a bit. Found it to be very biased neoliberal but then again I'm interested in ideas that fall way outside the Overton window of the democrat and republican political sphere. Democrat and Republican are essentially siblings. They're not that different in that they both aim to use capitalism and the power of the nation state military to exert influence and assert dominance.

https://outline.com/HwrgJ4

This seems like an increasingly common modern web pattern: load the article (no one cares about that), and all of the ads and trackers (which is what really matters), then use JavaScript to throw up a popover and do whatever you can to prevent people from using readability mode or killing the popup.

I'm fine with paywalls, but if you want to charge money for what you write, then just do it. Don't waste my bandwidth for something I'm not supposed to see. Put up a login page or something.

It loaded for me ok, I'm using the Materialistic HN app on Android

Or simply disabling JavaScript would have the same effect.

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