The Browser

The most disciplined filter on this list. Every day its two editors, Robert Cottrell and Caroline Crampton, read hundreds of articles and send just five, so each pick has had to beat a lot of competition. The range runs across essays, reporting and the occasional podcast or video, from publications large and small. The free daily email is enough to fill a weekend folder by Friday. Subscribers also get a Saturday best-of-the-week edition and a Sunday Supplement with a quiz and crossword, which is the closest thing here to a weekend paper with no news in it.