Substacks recommended by Nina Burleigh

Recommended by Nina Burleigh

Business is great, until somebody blows it. This is a newsletter about the biggest missteps in business – from ethical lapses to gross miscalculations – by a long-time financial journalist who has seen it all.

Ctrl Alt Right Delete

By Melissa Ryan

A weekly newsletter devoted to covering the rise of far-right extremism, white nationalism, disinformation, and online toxicity.

Stop the Presses

By Mark Jacob

A weekly newsletter about how right-wing extremism has exploited the weaknesses in American journalism, and what we can do about it.

The Home Front

By Reed Galen

Illuminating, educating, and organizing the pro-democracy movement.

Lively, engaging and important analysis by a political veteran.

- Nina Burleigh

Rick Wilson’s Substack

Thoughts and observations on the American Crisis.

Because he's Rick.

- Nina Burleigh

Siri & The City

By Simona Siri

Un posto dove scoprire la vita e la società Usa accompagnati da me e dalla mia famiglia

Because, Italia!

- Nina Burleigh

From The Frontlines

By Keya Vakil

From the Frontlines is a bi-weekly newsletter to get you up-to-speed on the local political stories you need to know from key states ahead of the 2024 election. Produced by COURIER.

Bennett’s "Unreasonable" Substack

By Bennett’s Unreasonable Substack

The Official Substack of the "Unreasonable" Podcast

Startup with 50

By Katja

Tales from the woman who founded a film production company with 50. Because - what could possibly go wrong?

Shop Rat by Emilia Petrarca

One fashion writer's attempt to get offline, go outside, and engage with style in real life.

Seymour Hersh

It's worse than you think

Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg

Expert commentary from a 30-year veteran of US politics. Here at Hopium we work on strategies to defeat MAGA, tell our story more effectively, and ensure freedom and democracy prevail. Expect sharp analysis, live events, and all sorts of Hopium!

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Orient to the currents that are shaping our times and the unseen forces driving politics that are rarely discussed on cable news

Good to wake up to Steve's outraged and erudite voice.

- Nina Burleigh

The Chris Hedges Report

By Chris Hedges

Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society.

Decoding Fox News

I watch all the Fox News you'd never want to.

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.

White Too Long by Robert P. Jones

A newsletter by author Robert P. Jones. For those dedicated to the work of truth-telling, repair, and healing from the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity.

JFK Facts

By Jefferson Morley

Authoritative journalism that seeks to clarify the causes of JFK's assassination and to abolish the official secrecy that still surrounds it

Lucid

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat

A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world

Important work. Ruth just knows autocracy.

- Nina Burleigh

FWIW

By Kyle Tharp

A newsletter tracking digital spending, strategy, and trends in our elections.

America, America

By Steven Beschloss

Essays of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. With passion and urgency.

The Corsair

By Ron Mwangaguhunga

Politics, Media, Culture by Ron Mwangaguhunga

Lucian Truscott Newsletter

By Lucian K. Truscott IV

I've covered everything from three wars, a few presidential campaigns, the Stonewall riots and the Rolling Stones. This column reflects that history and is about politics, culture, personal stories, and the nation's descent into anti-democratic madness.

Tireless interpreter of TFG and MAGA developments, veteran journalist who covered wars and domestic mayhem, added bonus he's a West Point grad who knows military stuff inside and out.

- Nina Burleigh

Unpopular Front

By John Ganz

the junk shop of history

SpyTalk

By Jeff Stein

Intelligence for Thinking People

Jeff Stein and his band of merry spy-watchers and ex-spies do real life LeCarre all week long.

- Nina Burleigh

BROADview

By BROADVIEW with Lisa Selin Davis

A newsletter about the gender culture wars, & the history, science, psychology & politics of gender nonconformity—misunderstood by the Right and Left. Where do our ideas of normal for boys and girls come from? Speaking the unspeakable. Pro-complexity.

Political Junkie

By Claire Potter

News you can use about politics, culture, media, and higher education.

PREVAIL by Greg Olear

PREVAIL is a regular column about politics, history, national security, foreign affairs, organized crime, dirty money, global corruption, the fight for democracy—and, on Sundays, poetry and literature.

I love starting my day with a dose of Greg's combination of wit, erudition, and outrage.

- Nina Burleigh

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Notebook

By B.D. McClay

About books, TV, movies, and higher etiquette. Also God sometimes. Also Taylor Swift.

Highly entertaining musings of a smart critic.

- Nina Burleigh