Reading between the lines sometimes necessitates reading outside of your paper boy's delivery radius. Legitimate ideas and venues for voices that don't always make the mainstream publications— though, a couple of those are here, too. Subscribe, don't subscribe— just make sure your local library does. -Leigh
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Alternative Weeklies
Excellent online resource of news and arts reporting from more than 100 alternative newsweeklies. Go »
The Atlantic Monthly
"Someone once noted that a liberal education, if nothing else, should at least make you a better companion for yourself. Is it too much to hope that, at its best, a good magazine might do the same?" Go »
American Prospect
Exposing the agenda and the lies that support the contemporary conservative propaganda apparatus. Go »
Arena
The website and online archive for Australia's premiere political and cultural magazine (bi-monthly) and journal (bi-annual). Self-supporting and trust-funded for 30 years and counting. Go »
The Boston Phoenix
Award-winning, incisive journalism and comprehensive arts and entertainment listings. (weekly) Go »
ColorLines
The nation's leading magazine on race, culture, and organizing. (quarterly) Go »
Editor & Publisher
America's Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry. (monthly) Go »
el Andar
Beautiful Latino magazine "for the new millennium" featuring news, arts, entertainment and culture. (quarterly) Go »
Ethical Corporation
UK Independent news, analysis and events in the area of corporate social, environmental and financial responsibility. Go »
Extra!
FAIR's hard-hitting magazine of well-documented media criticism receives no money from advertisers or corporate underwriters— translation: no advertorialsim. (bi-monthly) Go »
Foreign Policy
Refreshingly creative and succinct analysis of the most significant international news and trends— Go figure out how the world works. Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Go »
The Guardian
Brilliant daily UK broadsheet and, sadly, the best place to go for the truth about 1st-level US news and shenanigans. This is my paper of record now that the NYT's integrity is dead. Go »
Harper's Magazine
Fine writing and original thought exploring the issues and ideas in politics, science, and the arts that drive our national conversation. (monthly) Go »
The Independent (UK)
Smart daily UK broadsheet "beholden to no one political party, economically and socially liberal." Go »
Indian Country Today
Widely read and influential Native newspaper providing coverage that matters to Native Americans from a Native American perspective. (weekly) Go »
Institute for Southern Studies
in 1970 by veterans of the civil rights movement, the ISS draws attention to the national importance of the South and offers a vision of the region as a place brimming with a capacity for progressive change that challenges its reputation as a monolithic, conservative stronghold. Check out their Facing South blog and Southern Exposure magazine, too.Go »
In These Times
News, opinion and culture, committed to extending political and economic democracy. (bi-monthly) Go »
Le Monde Diplomatique
Brilliant political discussion and thought-provoking commentary including issues-based maps and accompanying articles. (monthly) Go »
The Nation
Enthusiastically liberal, succinct and thoughtful journal of political and social discussion. (weekly) Go »
Native American Times
The largest independently owned Native American Newspaper in the United States. (bi-monthly) Go »
New Left Review
Sharp, scholarly analysis, interviews and book reviews— in print and online covering world politics and the global economy, state powers and protest movements, contemporary social theory, history and philosophy, cinema and literature, heterodox art and aesthetics. (bi-monthly) Go »
The New Republic
Conservative-left DC-based journal of opinion, politics, and domestic and international affairs. (weekly) Go »
The New Statesman Irreverent, beautifully written and witty UK magazine of political and social thought and discussion. (weekly) Go »
The New Yorker
Incisive domestic and international news analysis alongside fine writing, the arts and NYC gossip and events. (weekly) Go »
The New York Observer
Smirking, smart and relevant coverage of media, finance, politics, society and the cultural arts for New Yorkers everywhere. (weekly) Go »
The Paris Review
International literary quarterly edited by George Plimpton (1953-2003). Go »
People's Weekly World
The newspaper of the Communist Party, USA and direct descendant of The Daily Worker. Go »
The Progressive
Award-winning investigative reporting, views from the grassroots of political activism. (monthly) Go »
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Investigative reporting, consumer news and reports, political news and endorsements and entertainment news from an alternative point of view. (weekly) Go »
Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Project
Dedicated to monitoring hate groups and extremist activity in the U.S., The SPLC's Intelligence Project publishes the quarterly Intelligence Report, updating law enforcement, the media, and the public on the activity it investigates. Go »
The Texas Observer
A vision of Texas in which education, justice and material progress are available to all and the lofty goal of provoking dialogue that promotes democratic participation and open government. No, "Texas" is not one of my typos. Go »
The Toronto Star
Excellent daily broadsheet features some of the most fair and balanced journalism on the planet. Go »
Utne Magazine
Original essays and articles from 2,000 alternative media sources— new perspectives on social change, environment, community, and creativity. (every other month) Go »