Drudge is a great aggregator but my goodness it has strong political biases. I used to pair Salon.com visits with drudge to get contrasting spins, but a year or two ago Salon went all link-baity fluff. For a while qz.com was amazing until they re-designed their home page and removed 50 IQ points from the content (ditto for fivethirtyeight.com). At this point my news sources are mainly reduced to the great-but-comically-biased drudge and the once-great-now-dumbed-down-but-still-analytically-unbiased fivethirtyeight.com
If anyone knows of a good US-moderate or left of US-center news aggregator that acts like its readers are intelligent, I'm all ears (I also like right of US-center news but I get plenty of that from drudge)
> US-moderate or left of US-center news aggregator that acts like its readers are intelligent
Other than perhaps on Twitter it's hard to find such a thing. Most news outlets are very biased, low-brow and clickbaitey these days, it's hard to be profitable otherwise. That being said, I'd personally categorize them as follows:
"Pro-Establisment" left of US center: NYT, Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, The Economist, BBC, New Yorker, Politico
Very left-wing: The Guardian, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed
"Establishment" moderate/right of US center: WSJ
Very right wing: Drudge, Fox News
Libertarian: Reason.com
Paranoid: RT, Zerohedge
Comically-biased, extreme right wing: Breitbart, Blaze, Daily Mail
Comically-biased, extreme left wing: Vox, Vice.com, Slate, Salon, Gawker
