The Atlantic Monthly has not yet lost quality in the wake of Michael Kelly's resignation and subsequent death. Two outstanding pieces from this month's issue are available online.
First, check out James Fallows' assessment of Rupert Murdoch and his business empire. While the piece is long and meanders a bit, it is a very sober assessment of the scope and ramifications of the Murdoch phenomenon:

The political component in Murdoch's media operation is larger than people inside the company admit—and perhaps larger than they believe. But it is smaller than most people who dread Murdoch's influence assume. He is principally a businessman, of conventional business-conservative views, who vents those views when possible but not when they interfere with any important corporate goal....The main political significance of a Murdoch era is that more of the press will become more openly partisan than it has been in many years.

(For a shorter profile with a similar perspective, check out this old Slate piece.)
In the same issue, Caitlin Flanagan has a classic appreciation of housewives and Erma Bombeck, which is worth reading along with her semi-paean to 50s-style marriages from several months ago.