because it has the best international news reporting in an English-language weekly. I recommend it to everyone. When I get each new issue, the first thing I read is the obituary at the very back of the editorial content. That is always amazingly well written, and frequently about very interesting people I have never heard of.
to learn more about a skeptical approach to life. The included Junior Skeptic section is very good for children to read, and the magazine has very interesting book reviews (and, for that matter, advertisements for books), so I recommend Skeptic also.
as another interesting magazine about a skeptical approach to life. I find Skeptic more informative and entertaining, on the whole, but I think Skeptical Inquirer has some editorial points of view that are more warranted than some of the points of view of the Skeptic editorial board.
After edit: I also very much like the Atlantic, but the call of the question is what I subscribe to, and the Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal and the New Yorker and other worthwhile periodicals are available at the public library that I walk to almost daily. I read those there.
http://www.economist.com/
because it has the best international news reporting in an English-language weekly. I recommend it to everyone. When I get each new issue, the first thing I read is the obituary at the very back of the editorial content. That is always amazingly well written, and frequently about very interesting people I have never heard of.
Skeptic,
http://www.skeptic.com/
to learn more about a skeptical approach to life. The included Junior Skeptic section is very good for children to read, and the magazine has very interesting book reviews (and, for that matter, advertisements for books), so I recommend Skeptic also.
Skeptical Inquirer,
http://www.csicop.org/si/
as another interesting magazine about a skeptical approach to life. I find Skeptic more informative and entertaining, on the whole, but I think Skeptical Inquirer has some editorial points of view that are more warranted than some of the points of view of the Skeptic editorial board.
After edit: I also very much like the Atlantic, but the call of the question is what I subscribe to, and the Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal and the New Yorker and other worthwhile periodicals are available at the public library that I walk to almost daily. I read those there.