The wonderful Harper's Magazine declined in importance because of its anti-web attitude. Thank goodness it is now developing a website, and that the Harper's Index is online. Here is June's. A sample:
"Price for which China will rent out Beijing's Great Hall of the People: $12,000
"Percentage of Chinese who say the free market is 'the best system on which to base the future of the world': 74
"Percentage of the French who say this: 36"