Thing is, even their science quarterlies have badly missed the mark recently. I remember a few years ago they had some in-depth articles on biology about genes and evolution and the explanations were both unnecessarily difficult and in some cases outright wrong, both of which are the opposite of what the Economist is known for.
I dropped The Economist over their support for Bush's Folly in Iraq. I do miss some of the quarterly focused single topic issues. Sometimes. Oh well.