Only real downside to The Economist though is their app. It's a complete embarrassment, the worst I've seen. It's comically bad, don't-just-fire-them-shoot-them bad.
For listening, I download the weekly copy and that makes it a bit more reliable.
If anyone from the economist is listening, please give me the option of putting the next 15s, previous 15s buttons on the Lock Screen (it matches what I do for podcasts).
A few months ago they broke swiping, if you can believe that. It's now suddenly hard to swipe to the next article, because it wants to scroll up or down instead. How the hell do you break swiping in an Android app in 2022!
And to top it all off, the insult on top of the ridiculously bad experience: the regular pop-up (when you're reading), to ask how you like the app? Type your feedback here! Which is 100% ignored of course, for YEARS. I've taken to just sending in "fuck you".
What, me bitter?
With the Apple News app, you can log in to your Economist account and get access to the economist content through the News app.
I suspect that the app is just so heavy and bloated that it performs really poorly on older phones.
Not that there's any excuse for that. All it should be doing is displaying some text so you'd think it would be pretty lightweight.
But now I love the app. The typography is decent, they support light/dark themes, you can play human-read audio of every piece individually, etc.
I’m curious, what are your problems with the app?
Don't let the titles of New York Review of Books and London Review of Books fool you. They do much longer view of contemporary news but thru book review.
Most news is probably not worth following every day. The rearview mirror of a weekly magazine gives better context than trying to follow most news the same day when details are still ongoing.
It is a weekly publication with good writers. Meaning: it is rarely, if ever, sensational, and covers prominent issues around the globe so I stay informed after about 60 minutes of reading. I still haven't figured out which way the editorial staff swings because they do a good job of keeping explicit bias out, but they seem to be left of center.
I also subscribe to The Atlantic. They are solid long-form reporting, but occasionally they get a really far-out article.
I used to get The Baffler, great out-of-the-box ideas, but the content was too depressing.