John Dickerson is a very good political reporter.

I still read Slate and Salon, but both are getting close to self-parody.

Slate runs those You're Doing It Wrong cooking features, which sound like a good idea until you read them and find out they don't set you straight on technique at all -- they just try an off-the-wall twist.

Salon is apparently having an internal battle over whether Bill Maher is right or very, very wrong, and so it simply alternates that viewpoint with each article.

I agree with the Economist. Also National Geographic and Financial Times. NYT.

There was a great article on slate a few months ago tracking back the myth of the welfare queen, which was super interesting. Every once in a while I still see something like that. But I agree that most of it now is pretty shallow, and often is just ill-informed commentary on some headline news, without the writer actually having learned about the issue. (Or like someone will comment on a science article, but it's like their comment is based entirely on just the headline to the original article, and therefore often totally off-base.)

Anonymous wrote:Scientific American , New Yorker , Smithsonian.

And The Economist, if you want to understand how things truly work.

Scientific American , New Yorker , Smithsonian.

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Anonymous wrote:Recommendations for an alternative? I miss the old Slate and Salon. Or was it just because I was younger when I read them?

Atlantic Monthly, New York Magazine

New Yorker. Atlantic. Mother Jones.

Anonymous wrote:Recommendations for an alternative? I miss the old Slate and Salon. Or was it just because I was younger when I read them?

Atlantic Monthly, New York Magazine

Recommendations for an alternative? I miss the old Slate and Salon. Or was it just because I was younger when I read them?

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Anonymous wrote:Ha I thought I was the only one who started hating it from the time of its website redesign

+1

Definitely not the only one. I miss the old Slate.

Anonymous wrote:Not crazy about Slate, at all, but it's not as bad as Salon. Wow. What utter, pretentious garbage.

+1

It jumped the shark a year ago. Emblematic of the dumbing down of America. I weep for the future.

What happened was they let go real experienced writers and hired Millennials barely out of college for cheap and it shows. A lot of online places are doing the same thing so you get what you pay for. Garbage.

Anonymous wrote:Not crazy about Slate, at all, but it's not as bad as Salon. Wow. What utter, pretentious garbage.

Pretentious? Not usually. Although I gave up reading Jenny Kutner's, Soraiya (Forgot her last name)'s, and Brittney Cooper's bad writing. Just awful. I got about a part of the way through Cooper's diatribe against the word "African-American," an article in which it seemed like she was claiming whiye people used the word out of fear of the word "black." I was just done after reading that inanity.