Some Good Mainstream Media Sources . . .

Want to know what is going on in the world? Here are sources that I follow. The focus of most is on business and economics. Use them to search for any topic relating to the world today.Anyone have any sources to add to this list?

• New York Times The best newspaper in America. Covers everything.
• Financial Times From London. I prefer it to the New York Times because it is clearer and more direct.
• Bloomberg Businessweek The best American newsweekly even though its focus is business. Here is a terrific story about global youth unemployment of the kind that sparked the revolution in Tunesia and Egypt. 
• Slate I don't follow this but young people do and it is very sharp.
• The Economist The world's best weekly, from England. Covers everything, despite its title.
• Real Clear Markets aggregates 20 new opinion pieces every day about finance, all culled from all over the Internet. Very intelligent choices.
• Weathering the Storm  My own site. Useful links on a) income disparity (rich/poor) and b) how (and whether) the world is recovering from global finance meltdown of 2007-2008
• Middle East Report The deepest coverage of the Middle East that I know of. Al Jazeera coverage of Egypt is fascinating.
• Drudge Report The most popular news aggregator. It's kind of right wing, yet I often find important stories here that are not covered in centrist (Chicago Tribune) or Leftish (New York Times) publications.
• Newser Another news aggregator. This one has a clever format: a grid of little photos for each story. Junk stories mix with serious stories.
• Scientific American For anything scientific! 
• Columbia Encyclopedia is  online at the Oakton Library Database. In Find It, go to Facts and Encyclopedias >  - All Subjects Credo ReferenceSearch > Encyclopedias (right hand column) > The Columbia Encyclopedia (under Encyclopedia/General) and then
  1. Enter your search in "Search for" at the top and not "Heading contains" a little farther down.
  2. Avoid misspellings, which give this message: "No hits for [misspelled topic]  in The Columbia Encyclopedia"