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Newsletters
Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson is a professor of American History at Boston College. Her daily digest chronicles current events in American politics with the helpful perspective of a historian who knows how we got here.
Read Heather's February 3, 2023 post on Republican vs. Democratic approaches to handling the deficit.
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
Joyce Vance, a former United States attorney, is currently a law professor and legal analyst for MSNBC and NBC. Vance, who served at the Justice Department for more than 25 years, writes a weekly newsletter to help us understand how our government and our legal system works. Joyce believes that if we stay informed and work together we can preserve our republic.
Robert Reich on Substack
Robert Reich's is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration for which Time Magazine named him one of the 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written 18 books, including
Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life
NYTimes bestselling author Andra Watkins grew up in a Christian Nationalist environment in rural South Carolina. She understands the mindset behind figures like Ron DeSantis and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Despite leaving that world over two decades ago, the indoctrination persists. Now, Andra is dissecting Project 2025, which she calls a Christo-fascist manifesto, highlighting its religious extremism often overlooked by mainstream media. Andra's goal? To rally Americans against this threat to freedom and democracy in the upcoming elections.
News Feeds
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The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City, with a worldwide reported readership of 9.41 million digital-only subscribers and 670,000 print subscribers as of 2023.
The newspaper was founded in 1851 as the New-York Daily Times. It is published by The New York Times Company and has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes. It has long been regarded as a national newspaper of record.
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The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It was founded in 1857 in Boston, as The Atlantic Monthly, a literary and cultural magazine that published leading writers' commentary on education, the abolition of slavery, and other major political issues of that time.
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TALKING POINTS MEMO (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture.
We devote extensive resources to critical policy stories, like the decade-long GOP effort to repeal Obamacare, voter suppression, and the more recent push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
We keep close tabs on the political fringe — militias, white nationalists, conspiracy theorists and more — because we believe they are greater drivers of American politics than mainstream news coverage allows.
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POLITICO is the global authority on the intersection of politics, policy, and power. It is the most robust news operation and information service in the world specializing in politics and policy, which informs the most influential audience in the world with insight, edge, and authority. Founded in 2007, POLITICO has grown to a team of 700 working across North America, more than half of whom are editorial staff. POLITICO Europe, its seven-year-old European edition has grown to nearly 200 employees. In October, 2021, POLITICO was acquired by, and is a subsidiary of, Axel Springer SE.
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Focusing on politics, policy, business and international relations, The Hill's coverage includes the U.S. Congress, the presidency and executive branch, and election campaigns.[5] The Hill describes its output as "nonpartisan reporting on the inner workings of Government and the nexus of politics and business".[6]
The company's primary outlet is TheHill.com. The Hill is additionally distributed in print for free around Washington, D.C., and distributed to all congressional offices. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group since 2021.
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Focusing on politics, policy, business and international relations, The Hill's coverage includes the U.S. Congress, the presidency and executive branch, and election campaigns.[5] The Hill describes its output as "nonpartisan reporting on the inner workings of Government and the nexus of politics and business".[6]
The company's primary outlet is TheHill.com. The Hill is additionally distributed in print for free around Washington, D.C., and distributed to all congressional offices. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group since 2021.