Worthwhile Links |
May 2003 |
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The Economist: Quite possibly the smartest news magazine in the world. Less British than it was.
US News & World Report: Certainly a step up from Time or Newsweek, but a bit too common in its thinking. MacLean's: Canada's weekly news magazine, at least for Anglophones. The Nation: Allegedly America's oldest magazine, by unreconstructed 1960s leftists for unreconstructed 1960s leftists. New Republic: Left-of-center, for America anyway. The National Review: Bill Buckley's baby. It brought the American Right out of the 1960s wilderness. The Weekly Standard: The National Review for a new generation. Reason: The Cato Institute's House organ, definitively libertarian. Salon.com: Fine website that might work better in print. Slate.com: Microsoft's answer to Salon, suffers from the same misuse of HTML. The New Statesman: Left-wing Britain doesn't live at Number 10 Downing Street. All You Can Read: Links to 23,000 magazines and newspapers in 200 countries. |
British Broadcasting Corp.: Britannia still rules the airwaves.
Financial Times: More than part of a merchant banker's uniform. Wall Street Journal: America's best reporting, and worst editorial page. The Times: If only Rupert Murdoch didn't own it. The Independent: What former readers of The Times read now. Washington Post: What your Congressman reads each morning. LA Times: The most important paper in America's most important state. New York Times: Prints all the news that fits between the Macy's ads. Christian Science Monitor: Proof that religious belief does not have to corrupt journalism. Toronto Sun: Boasts the most read Sunday in Canada. Globe and Mail: Canada's newspaper of record. Reuters: The gold standard among news services. Politics1.com: Ron Gunzburger's website is one of the most exhaustive resources on US politics anywhere. |
Charity Watch: Designed to help you help others.
American Cancer Society: A cure is in the cards. World Cancer Research Fund: Fighting the Big "C" in Britain. Make-A-Wish Foundation: A little happiness for terminally ill children. Red Cross: No introduction is needed. Salvation Army: Christian in the very best sense of the word. Muscular Dystrophy Association: Much more than Jerry Lewis on Labor Day. March of Dimes: Preventing birth defects and infant mortality. Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: Not just an affliction of the aged. The Prince's Trust: The best thing HRH Prince Charles ever did. ASPCA and RSPCA: Animals are just dumb, only people can be stupid. Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation: Music in the schools -- civilization demands it. Hunger Project: Hunger is the leading cause of political oppression. Alzheimer's Association: In memory of Harold Russell. |