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Comment by sanderjd | Hacker News Reader

WSJ has the best straight news IMO. Their editorial section is nonsense though. The editorial section of NYT is a bit better, but just because it has a really broad stable, so most days there are both good and bad articles. I like The Atlantic for opinion on the left, and The Dispatch on the right. I also think Economist is good, but I'm not sure where to categorize it (which is one reason it is good).

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The Economist is good because they are a centrist publication with a liberal economics bent and they don't hide it. It's refreshing because their "bias" ends up feeling more like "here is a centrist perspective" unlike some other publications where you're left questioning their agenda.

The WSJ editorial is correct time and time again. The board is steadfast in principles and it comes to pass how correct they are on a consistent basis.

1. Venezuela going down hill because of bad decisions, WSJ editorial pointed it out. 2. Minimum Wages’s effects and should be eliminated, the NYT’s editorial board agreed up until its radical conversion and fearful state.

Go through the archives and see how much of their editorial articles line up with what actually happens, then go through the NYT editorials and see how far wrong they are on policy proscriptions and misunderstandings or more often blindsiding of second order effects.

The Atlantic is not even close to a leftist magazine! They had a cover story from david frum on why immigration is bad and another one fearmongering about trans kids.

I don't think of constructions like "on the left" or "from the left" as equivalent to "leftist". On the continuum of US politics, The Atlantic is clearly center-left or perhaps a bit to the left of that, though of course that doesn't mean that their articles are universally of that variety.

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