> At least they are very open about their biases: they promote a view that the solution to all ills is lower taxes and less regulation.

That's a (common) caricature of The Economist's views. Their actual policy proposals are quite a bit more nuanced than that, and often call for taxes and regulation.

As one datapoint, note that in the last four US presidential elections, they've endorsed the Democratic candidate (see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_editorial_stance... ).