Newsweek’s cover story in 1982 bore the banner line “Reagan’s America: And the Poor Get Poorer” just as though President Reagan wanted poor people to get poorer or didn’t care if they did. I haven’t bought another issue since. Now that they have dropped even the pretense of news reporting, I doubt that I will.

Cinabar, if Newsweek has been renewing your subscription free of charge for years this may not be deliberate on their part. Their subscription records might be as just as accurate as their reporting.