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If any further evidence is needed, the new cover of Fortune shows just how much business magazines have become partisan and, very often, anti-business.

We’re a magazine of ideas for business leaders. We are strictly non-partisan, but, like the founder of Fortune, Henry Luce, we view business as a positive force in American life. We want the business imagination unleashed, not stifled by politicians, bureaucrats, and taxes.

Lately, business magazines have moved in the opposite direction. Fortune, for example, has been hiring editors and writers with a strong anti-business and anti-free-market bias. 

The cover story on Hillary Clinton is only the latest illustration of what is happening in American business journalism. 

By contrast, the upcoming issue of The American carries articles on the resurgence of Japan, which has used American business and economic ideas to make a stunning comeback; on what business can do to help fix education (stop backing a system that doesn’t work, smash the regulations, and support entrepreneurs who will shake things up); on how Microsoft is trying to woo college students away from investment banking and toward computer science; and on a young African-American economist at Harvard who is courageous enough to tackle subjects that frighten off his colleagues.

Yes, we write about politicians – our piece back in November on Mitt Romney showed how he will use his venture-capital experience if he’s elected. We weren’t shy about listing the 10 most economically literate members of Congress: six Republicans and four Democrats.

But NEVER will you find us touting a presidential candidate on our cover.

Why not take advantage of the last few days of our charter subscription offer to see how good – and how fruitful for your own business success – real business journalism can be?

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