Center
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Founded in 1843 to argue for free trade, and still writing to that founding position. Articles are published unsigned, so the magazine speaks with a single institutional voice rather than as individual reporters.
Its global coverage is unusually broad and its writing unusually clear, and it endorses candidates on classical liberal grounds that cut across American party lines. Critics argue the unsigned house voice conveys more certainty than the reporting behind it warrants, and that its market-liberal starting position is a settled premise rather than a conclusion.