Maybe spending the same amount on those worthy publications that depend on the kindness of strangers to keep going would be a worthy investment (and keep them going)... you know, things like, oh... the Mex Files or... say, The Unapologetic Mexican.

¡Limosnas!

verdad, verdad! and i need to do a feria raiser myself because im cooking bark over here. aside from these considerations, let it pleeze be a given that i personally prefer news and opeds from sites like yours and others over print media i come across. let it be a given that this question i posed definitely relates to a situation where print media will be bought anyway.

The Nation is a really good suggestion. If your friend wants a really neat, relatively moderate compilation of all the tripe the MSM has to offer without reading everything, The Week appears a really nifty magazine that compiles stories from a variety of sources in one weekly magazine (well yeah, the weekly part's probably obvious).

I did a quick Google search and found In These Times magazine; check out its mission statement:

In These Times is dedicated to informing and analyzing popular movements for social, environmental and economic justice; to providing a forum for discussing the politics that shape our lives; and to producing a magazine that is read by the broadest and most diverse audience possible.

So that sounds like a good option.

Another one is the Independent Review. This one seems to be more academia-oriented, but it touches on things like public policy and it looks promising.

And since you mentioned a feminist bent, here's a whole resource of mainstream feminist magazines. I'm not sure what the WOC input is, but I guess they can be perused at will. I've heard good things about Bitch and Bust, though. And off our backs looks like a radical feminist magazine.

New Internationalist
http://www.newint.org/
Because planet earth does continue past the US border.
In these times - I second Sylvia.
Amnesty international magazine, free with a membership sub.
Radical Leftist Oregonian Caucasian Feminist used to be good but since they jacked up the cover price and outsourced it to Mumbai its lost focus.

I appreciate these, you all. Thank you very much.

Bueno... though I can eat beans and rice a little longer. Texas Observer (http://texasobserver.org) might not be a bad investment... yeah, it's a "regional" publication, but for a shoestring operation, has some of the best reporting (and reporters) in the country... as well as regular coverage of the kinds of issues both Nezua and I don't have the resources to get into in depth... prison reform, immigration, etc.

www.colorsmagazine.com!

fuck the Nation

I'd second ITT - one their reporters wrote the slave labor piece you read - I had a sub back in the 80's

off our backs is great activist mag - coupla friends have pub'd there over the years

one I came across last year (at a talk by Dahr Jamail & Jeremey Scahill) that's very good for its focus area (mebbe not yr friend's interest?) is Washington Report on Middle East Affairs:

www.wrmea.com

Monthly Review:

http://www.monthlyreview.org/

New Left Review:

http://newleftreview.org/

Counterpunch puts out a good print supplement

cheers, etc.

thank you both for your input. i'm lucky to be able to gain from others' experience. it's just what i hoped for when i asked.

What popped into my mind instead of Art in America - and it is a big jump - was Transition:
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00411191.html

It's arty, not academic ... and it's really more of an international review, not as specifically African-American as the blurb suggests (not that that's bad, but the key words here were leftist, feminist, Caucasian, Oregonian) ...

P.S. you could of course get very Oregonian and go for Green Anarchy: http://www.greenanarchy.org/

ah, true...thanks cero! jotted.

I just thought of another: the NACLA Report on the Americas, instead of Newsweek.

http://www.nacla.org/issue_disp.php

re: progressive stuff for a Radical-Left Feminist Caucasian

How about Bitch magazine?