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If you read any news sources/publications for more specific/alternative subjects, what are they?
Tl;dr typical news sources tend to prioritize political and governmental events and the things that surround them, like economics and social issues, even if they cover everything, and by covering everything they probably stretch themselves thinly among what they don't prioritize. (At least that's how it feels.)
A few examples of what I'm thinking of are:
Foreign Affairs, who focus specifically on geopolitics
The Scientific American, which focuses specifically on... science.
Aeon, which seems to focus on "the humanities". (vaaague.)
So... what are your examples of news sources/publications like this that you follow?
I follow The Economist to get their view on what's most important not only in The West, but in the whole world every week.
They have their biases in analysis, sure. But those biases are on their sleeves, consistent, available for all to see, and the quality of their reporting is stellar. You can disagree with their prescriptions for how things should be, but their descriptions of how things are is worth the subscription price alone.
It's possible to follow a publication that has a lot of politics for non-political reasons. For example, I mostly read The Atlantic for scientific articles. (Ed Yong in particular.) Most of their political coverage is fairly dull, but there is occasionally a good long-form piece.
For California weather-related stuff, my main source is Daniel Swain's twitter feed and blog.
I use Wirecutter for product reviews, though it seems to be getting subsumed in the New York Times.
And of course there is FiveThirtyEight for election coverage.
There is a number of philosophy websites on my feed. It would be tedious to type them all on mobile so I screenshoted most of them: