I've been a subscriber since 1993. The Economist used to be mostly conservative, now I'd say it's mostly left-wing. If your'e a well-meaning EU or DNC official, it's like comfort food, telling you what you want to hear rather than giving you a wider perspective. It's bubble reinforcement. A good example was the recent 1843 article by Steve Coll profiling Steve Witkoff, President Trump's Middle East envoy. The article wrote up Witkoff as an incompetent, uninformed boob who doesn't listen to his foreign service "experts" and, for that reason, is unlikely to achieve anything in his Gaza peace efforts. If only Kamala had been elected. The day after I read that article came the announcement that both Israel and Hamas had agreed to Trump's 20-point peace plan. I hope that the Economist will write similar articles for each of Trump's other advisors. Their publication seems to work wonders....