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Recommended by Kathleen Weber

To win the working class, Democrats must listen to and learn from them. This project is the biggest effort to do so in 2025.

How to Cook a Hippopotamus

Lawyer with a background in the fall of democracies

Two Grumpy Old Men on Ukraine 🇺🇦

Between them, Michael Andersen and Brian Bonner have covered Ukraine for 50+ years. This blog is pro-Ukrainian, telling the truth about places, people and the West's role. Neither the war nor Ukraine's other challenges started in February 2022.

Perspective from two long-time residents of Ukraine

- Kathleen Weber

Cracking Defence

By Matthew Palmer

Defence and Security, mostly (but not always) from a UK perspective.

China Translated

By Robert Wu

Where China starts to make some sense to you

Lucas’s Substack

By Lucas Kunce via Substack

Wonkette

By Rebecca Schoenkopf

Wonkette is filthy, hilarious, liberal news. YOU CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Futura Doctrina

By Mick Ryan

A conversation about technology, ideas, people and their convergence in contemporary war and competition. Also covering issues related to the war in Ukraine, Chinese aggression against Taiwan and Indo-Pacific defence.

Phillips’s Newsletter

By Phillips P. OBrien

Whatever intrigues me--these days the Russo-Ukraine War with regular departures

One First

By Steve Vladeck

A weekly newsletter aiming to make the Supreme Court’s rulings, procedures, and history more accessible to all

everyone is entitled to my own opinion

By Jeff Tiedrich

I read the news today, oh boy

China News

By Phil Cunningham

News analysis, essays, opinion pieces, articles

Phil has spent decades in China and he writes very well.

- Kathleen Weber

Sparks from Culture by David Roberts

Weekly personal essays about wealth, class, and capitalism from someone with generational wealth, writing with transparency

Writing from London

By Nick Cohen

Politics and culture from the UK and beyond by Nick Cohen

Labor Politics

By Eric Blanc

Analyses of union organizing and working-class politics

Comment is Freed

By Sam Freedman

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

By Joyce Vance

Worried about the state of the republic? Get the legal knowledge & analysis you need to be an advocate for democracy, along with a dose of savvy optimism.

Very Serious

By Josh Barro

Josh Barro's newsletter about politics, the economy and culture.

Josh Barro is a very smart commenter on American politics, and he writes clearly.

- Kathleen Weber

Extelligence

By Some Guy

Welcome to Extelligence, a substack about Communal Sense-Making, Enlightment Style Digital Governance, and really colorful anecdotes.

THE deEP STATE : The political artwork of Michael de Adder

This is the official Substack newsletter of award winning editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder.

This editorial cartoonist has a very sharp pen

- Kathleen Weber

The Deleted Scenes

By Addison Del Mastro

Urbanism, culture, idiosyncrasy

Paul Krugman

Notes on economics and more

The Pillar

News and analysis covering the Catholic Church.

Best source for news on the wacky world of the Catholic Church.

- Kathleen Weber

The Bulwark

The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and culture—supported by a community built on good-faith.

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

As Time Goes By

Recommended by Kathleen Weber