Newsweek or Economist, some advice?

Hi all:
My Newsweek (Asian edition) subscription is due to expire in August this year. That was what the international editor Fareed Zakaria urged me in "his" letter. :wink:
Fareed is one of the few magazine writers that I admire. His articles on Middle East, on Islam, on Sino-US relations and a lot of issues have set up an image for me of what a really good political thinker should be like. And Newsweek is good. I can't be bad?
But meanwhile I have longed to renew my subscription with Economist, which I had the chance to read for several times. It's also a great one with abundant contents as a contrast to Newsweek and Time's one-picture-cover-2-whole-A4-page style, which I loathe. But the question remains: I still don't know much about Economist, a basic question is: Whom do it's articles come from?
There is no cost issue for two things I am sure: These two magazines are basically at the same price; And I can't afford 2 at the same time.
So my fellow A2K experts, provide me with some juicy advice!


Thank you
JB