The Economist
On Extra Extra, The Economist is grouped with center outlets, a placement drawn from the consensus of independent media-bias raters (AllSides, Ad Fontes Media, and Media Bias/Fact Check) rather than our own opinion. Its reliability rating of A reflects a strong track record of factual, well-sourced reporting. That rating is a guide for weighing what you read here, not a verdict on any single article.
We are currently tracking 8 recent articles from The Economist, published over the past 30 hours. Recurring themes in its latest headlines include Newslett.
The best way to use this profile is comparatively. Read The Economist's coverage of a story alongside how outlets on other parts of the spectrum handle the same event — the facts usually overlap, but the emphasis, language, and what gets left out often do not. Other center sources we track include BBC News, Al Jazeera, Associated Press, and Reuters.
Recent Articles (8)
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John Prideaux, our executive editor, imagines a ten-storey apartment building to explain how a polarised country can still swing wildly
The trials of Binyamin Netanyahu
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Pure whey is the way to go
How could Donald Trump interfere with the midterms?
Our weekly podcast on America. This week, the ways the election could be disrupted
What to watch this week
Three things that are wonderfully weird—and one that is just plain odd
Songs of disenchantment: the sorrow of Nigeria
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