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Whilst on holidays I finally bought an issue of the New Yorker (it's hard to find in newsstands) as well as the Guardian Weekly. I also was catching up on The Atlantic, so, I had a chance to (very unsystematically) compare all of them.

Summary:

1. Guardian Weekly seems significantly (maybe 30%) shorter than The Economist and quite a bit less opinionated. As the Economist, for all its qualities, tends to be quite repetitive as well as overly detailed (I want to know who is blocking Hormuz today and how likely that is to provoke a confrontation with China; I don't need to know exactly who said what when).

(Disclosure: my BIL reads The Guardian and it's possible that I have an unconscious positive bias towards it, for that reason. My BIL is to current events knowledge as Elon Musk is to money).

2. New Yorker had a few stories that were lovely - airport lounges, Scottish stonehenge, and bereft remote communities in Greenland come to mind. They are much less current events related and I didn't notice an anti-Trump bias (The Economist has one, but, it's not quite as in your face as, say, NYT). There are about 1/4 the number of stories as The Economist and they are 4x-10x longer, thus clocking in at close to 100 pages. PER WEEK. That is WAY too much for me. I'll buy it on occasion.

3. The Atlantic is, for me, by far the most rewarding of the four - not a big reading burden (schedule is confusing but I think one every few weeks), and only a handful of stories, albeit, LONG. It is also not particularly current events focussed. It does have a very obvious anti-Trump bias, but, that's OK.

I was contemplating replacing The Economist print with GW, and keeping Economist podcasts, just to optimize time. I probably won't though.

I was also contemplating checking out Atlantic/NY'er/Guardian podcasts but I probably won't do that either.

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