Curated List of Resources
New Perspectives
Curated opinion pieces from a diverse collection of thought leaders
Activist Post- Alternative News and Independent Views
BuzzFeed News- Reporting to You
Diplomatic Courier- Connecting global publics to leaders in international affairs, diplomacy, social good, technology, business, and more.
Dissent Magazine — Dissent is a quarterly magazine of politics and ideas.
FAIR- Challenging Media Bias Since 1986
Morning Consult — Real time polling data to navigate the political landscape
Soc 344- Selling the News
The Society Pages- A social science hub putting news in context.
Contexts.org- Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers. We’re the public face of sociology.
Commune Magazine- Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution.
Hackwackers — A PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVE ON POLITICS, CULTURE AND THE MEDIA SINCE 2006
The Corbett Report — Open Source Intelligence News
Dame — Reporting & analysis on politics, policy, culture and more. We don’t fake anything, especially not the news.
First Draft — Liberal Politics, Media Criticism & General Mayhem
News and Tools for Progressives
History News Network- Because the past is the present and the future too
Commentary- The monthly magazine of opinion
Duck of Minerva- The Duck of Minerva focuses on world politics from an academic perspective.
UTNE — Cure ignorance
Grist — Climate. Justice. Solutions
Byline Times — What the papers don’t say
Armstrong Economics — Covering The Intersection Of Geopolitics, Global Markets, And Economic Confidence
Of Two Minds — by Charles Hugh Smith
The byte- Futurism
The Incidental Economist — The health services research blog
The Mahablog — Politics. Society. Group Therapy.
Media Roots- Citizen Journalism
Just Security — an online forum for the rigorous analysis of national and international security.
Important Context — This newsletter, which is part of the OptOut Media Foundation, is dedicated to helping you decode the national conversation by exposing misinformation, disinformation, and bad actors.
Slate Magazine Respects the Linear Nature of Time
Witness —WITNESS helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights.
Stinque — If it smells, we’re on it
Resilience — Insight and inspiration in turbulent times (climate focus)
Rude Pundit — Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
The Propaganda Professor — Studying the glorious work of those who want to do your thinking for you
Quillette — Quillette is a platform for free thought. We respect ideas, even dangerous ones. We also believe that free expression and the free exchange of ideas help human societies flourish and progress. Quillette aims to provide a platform for this exchange.
First Draft — Liberal politics, media criticism and general mayhem
naked capitalism — Fearless commentary on finance, economics, politics and power
TK News by Matt Taibbi — Real Journalism — email subscription required
Resilience- Resilience.org aims to support building community resilience in a world of multiple emerging challenges: the decline of cheap energy, the depletion of critical resources like water, complex environmental crises like climate change and biodiversity loss, and the social and economic issues which are linked to these.
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Grid — Reporting and analysis on how world events, persistent challenges and mega-trends connect.
