6. The New Yorker
Founded as a weekly in 1925 by journalist couple Harold Ross and Jane Grant as a sophisticated humor magazine, like The Economist, The New Yorker has grown into a must read publication for academics, intellects, and through the witty and insightful cartoons peppered throughout its pages, people who want a view of the world sprinkled with a little humor.
The magazine initially focused mainly on the cultural life of New York City, it has expanded to rigorously fact checked articles about not only the cultural, social, and political life of the United States but the world at large. Don’t expect the ‘breaking news’ style journalism of recent years as many of the articles you’ll find in The New Yorker have been researched and written over months, providing the reader with deep analysis that has been thoroughly and comprehensively written.
