<p>Do check out student rates. The NY Times has a student rate. Yes, you can read it for free online, but a nice treat is to get a Sunday-only or weekend subscription. I find that I read far more of the paper when it’s the dead trees variety.</p>
<p>I entirely concur with zapfino about Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and Arts and Letters Daily. We subscribe to Atlantic and The New Yorker. Since AM is a monthly, it’s a cheaper subscription.</p>
<p>The Economist is excellent, however, it might be too in depth for a junior in high school. I started reading it then, and found Times significantly easier to understand and for introducing me to the world of foreign affairs. Now that i’m a freshman, i mainly read the Economist as has been encouraged by my professors. Finding time is a little tricky as it comes out every week. I also second the Arts and Letters Daily ^^</p>
<p>But I don’t know if there are other strings attatched.</p>
<p>What I’m planning to do is what Zapfino suggested - I go to the local public library once in a while to read the Economist there. The Economist is just so thick for me to keep reading it every week, it’ll just pile up. I plan to go to the Times and BBC website to check out the latest news headlines. The Economist subscriptions are just too pricey for me when I know I won’t be able to finish it before the new issue arrives.</p>
<p>I love The Week Magazine, sort of a news consolidator, they have articles from many sources and differing points of view. Also have great book recommendations. Take a look at their website.</p>