The Monthly Labor Review (a journal published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) has an online version that features a column called Precis, which summarizes a few research abstracts each month. The subject matter is always economics but also just about always of general interest.

For example, some recent topics: The business cycle and earnings and income inequality; Siblings and earnings inequality; Time stress and its causes; Self-employment around the world; …

The current (December 2004) issue of Precis is here and the links to all of them (since 1998) are here. This is a great public service and perhaps could be successfully imitated by other agencies.