Fair.org: Complement to Economist or NYTimes

Not a print biweekly, but highly recommend http://fair.org/ as a complement to things like Economist or even NYT.

Amongst the more highly-rating alternatives were (in no particular order):
1. Mother Jones
2. The Christian Science Monitor
3. The Nation
4. Jacobin Magazine. (Probably the most directly ideologically opposed publication.)
5. Alternet, The Real News, and Truthdig, each of which has a diverse though sometimes questionable set of contributors.

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16537718

If you’re looking for an explicitly adversarial complement, Jacobin might fit the bill: https://jacobinmag.com/
(Though it’s quarterly rather than weekly, of course)

I would encourage US residents who want a more balanced view of world events to read a mixture of the largest international, english language, online news portals/papers which are not published in the US:
UK: Guardian
UK: The Independent
CA: The Globe and Mail (generally centrist), The National Post (generally right of center).
PK: Dawn, The Daily Times
IN: Times of India
SG: Straights Times
AU: Sydney Morning Herald
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For DE:
Spiegel Online (not the real Spiegel, but they obviously share many articles with the mothership): http://www.spiegel.de/international/
Zeit: http://www.zeit.de/english/index