Pretty much what the title says. I understand one cannot know every topic from every angle. But if you wanted to have a fair and representative understanding of the latest and most well-presented ideas in terms of social and economic policies in neo-liberalism, libertarianism, neo-conservatism, socialist, and/or whatever you believe the be the reigning political ideologies of today, what do you think a person ought to be reading? I guess I’m wondering what y’all think are the best written/researched publications out there for their respective base that they’re writing for?

And if you can only offer some examples for your particular political/social interests feel free to provide it. Trying to get a sense of how to build a reading list that might make me relatively literate in more than my own inherently biased ways of understanding the world and thought a sub where people take the quality of their information very seriously would be a good place to start.

(And if this topic already exists somewhere feel free to virtually slap me and then point me in the right direction.)

Edit: To those who have responded with suggestions thus far, thanks! Definitely have a place to start building this kind of reading list. Looking forward to more suggestions/discussion.

For those who seem more interested in discrediting the suggestions in other posts:

1.) So what should people be reading instead?

2.) If the idea is to read exclusively the writing of those in the non-mainstream, I think there is still something to be said for understanding how the issues are being presented more broadly. For instance, bloggers who are commenting on the news are writing in response to something and I think it's helpful to know how these ideas are being shared with the public. Bloggers aren't just making this stuff up, they are responding to and commenting on the world of ideas being shared in the mainstream.