Substacks recommended by Jonathan Larsen

Recommended by Jonathan Larsen

These days I am writing about Christian nationalism, history, and religion. Most of my content is still at wthrockmorton.com. That includes articles about Mars Hill Church, Gospel for Asia, David Barton, Uganda, psychology and much more.

The Capitol Hill Reader

Weekly highlights from the President, Congress, and the Federal Courts, reporting live from the shadow ban.

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Wonkette

By Rebecca Schoenkopf

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

Iowa politics with Laura Belin

Where you get in-depth coverage and exclusive reporting about Iowa politics

The After-Action Report

By Seth Hettena

Exclusive reporting on naval special warfare and the U.S. intelligence community.

Kill The Body

By KTB

KTB calls out "back office" apparatchiks in the Trump Administration and the MAGA movement – the working level functionaries who you haven't heard of but who are just as responsible as Trump, Miller, Vought, and all the other big names.

Personnel is policy. Or in Trump's case, bad personnel is bad policy.

- Jonathan Larsen

The Cause

By L O L G O P

How we save democracy, or something that resembles it.

Publishing Confidential

By Kathleen Schmidt

News and analysis about the book publishing industry that you won't read anywhere else.

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.

Worth Knowing with Matt Robison

Where politics meets history, science, and the ideas that shape our world

Scenes from a Slow Civil War

By Jeff Sharlet

I reported Trump '16 and '20 for magazines & in my book THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. I was going to sit '24 out, but the slow civil war is speeding up.

Because we don’t have 14-year-old soldiers writing home from Antietam…

- Jonathan Larsen

Steady

By Dan Rather

Dan Rather's steady take on a complex and chaotic world.

Blue Amp Media

By Cliff Schecter with Blue Amp

I'm Cliff Schecter, Biden ad writer (2020) who beat Trump then founded BAM to "amplify good" and fight billionaire predators & MAGA. With me is Emmy-winning former MSNBC anchor, David Shuster. WE WILL FIGHT FOR YOU EVERY DAY AND WE WILL WIN THIS FIGHT!

Raw America

The fastest-growing people powered news network in America. Investigative journalism, analysis and Capitol Hill reporting.

Rushkoff

I write about how we can sustain our humanity in a highly digital world.

The Coffman Chronicle

By Tony Michaels

The Coffman Chronicle combines cutting-edge technology and human expertise to deliver the future of news, today.

Alisyn Camerota

A place for sanity and possibility in these crazy times.

Everything Is Fine*

By everythingisfineonline

Chronicling American life post-democracy. It's not that bad. It's fine*.

Watchdog Weekly

By Revolving Door Project

The Revolving Door Project scrutinizes the subtler ways in which corporate wealth corrupts our politics, starting with the federal executive branch and branching out to the federal judiciary, economic media, and state constitutional officers.

Reframing America

By Antonia

Changing the way the American Left engages in the public debate.

Jared Bernstein

My personal newsletter

The Cross Section

By Paul Waldman

Slicing politics open to peer inside its disturbing innards and determine how it all works

Previte

By Martha Previte

A Previte Substack of all things Previte.

Rickipedia

By Rick Perlstein

My world, in pixels.

Mourning Remembrance: A collection of mocking obituaries

By Jim Earl

Ripped from the deadlines: A collection of mocking obituaries of real people. Written by Emmy Award-winning writer Jim Earl. Art by Martha Previte (mixed-media collages). Nathan Smith (illustrations in book). Tony Millionaire (book cover art).

Martha Previte

Martha is an artist, comedic voice actress, writer & performer. http://tiktok.com/@marthaprevite https://www.patreon.com/MarthaPrevite

Comedy about shit that matters instead of all that other shit comedy.

- Jonathan Larsen

Scott MacFarlane Reports

Enterprise News 24/7. Exclusives, explanation and expertise. A strong democracy requires a strong and independent media. These are my unfiltered reports ... direct to you ..... in real-time.

The Moral High Ground

By Evan Hurst

We are living through a world-historical temper tantrum from white conservative Christians over their loss of control, relevance, and supremacy. This weekly newsletter looks at current events through that lens and usually mocks it mercilessly.

Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture

By Robert Leonard

The politics and culture of Iowa, the Midwest, and beyond.

Welcome to Joy's House!

By Joy-Ann (Joy) Reid

Welcome to Joy's House, the official home of Joy-Ann Reid and The Joy Reid Show (TJRS). Here you'll find the thoughts, recommendations, newsie items, upcoming appearances and more of political analyst, author, documentary filmmaker & Blerd, Joy-Ann Reid.

David Shuster

David Shuster is an Emmy award winning broadcast journalist who is best known for his work at NBC News and MSNBC and his ongoing YouTube videos on "Rebel HQ."

The Crucial Years

By Bill McKibben

Working on Winning the Climate Fight

The Signorile Report

By Michelangelo Signorile

Exposing far-right extremism and corporate media complicity. News, politics, analysis, interviews by journalist & SiriusXM radio host Michelangelo Signorile.

The Present Age

By Parker Molloy

Parker Molloy’s award-winning media criticism, culture, and politics newsletter.

SoCal Water Wars

By John Earl

A local and reliable source of investigative journalism and in-depth reporting about SoCal water wars

Like water?

- Jonathan Larsen

The Original Source by Chris Rodda

Debunker of David Barton's lies since 2002

Sex on Wednesday

By Martha Kempner

The latest information about sex and sexual health analyzed by author and sexual health expert Martha Kempner.

Strength In Numbers

By G. Elliott Morris

Independent, data-driven analysis of politics, public opinion polls, and elections. From author, journalist, and pollster G. Elliott Morris.

Jim Earl's Substack of Bile

Semi-informed scribblings about nothing and everything from an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning comedy writer formerly of The Daily Show, WTF with Marc Maron, National Lampoon's Final Edition and assorted others.

If you enjoyed his award-winning writing for The Daily Show back in its heyday, here ya go...

- Jonathan Larsen

Chop Wood, Carry Water

By Jess Craven

This weekday newsletter gives you easy, effective political actions to take to stave off despair, effect positive change and elect more true public servants. It also provides a Sunday good news list to show you all of our wins!

Here's what you can do about all the fucking news...

- Jonathan Larsen

Friendly Atheist

By Hemant Mehta

Commentary about religion and politics, centered around atheism.

How the Hell... with Alex Wagner

By Alex Wagner

How the Hell... with Alex Wagner is dedicated to smart, uncensored analysis about how the hell we got here — and what the hell we're going to do about it.

Q and A Today

By Desiree Adib

A smart roundup of the most fascinating interviews of the week so far...

See who's talking, and what they're saying, in full interviews, not just clips...

- Jonathan Larsen

Inside The Newsroom — The Newsletter For Journalists

By Daniel Levitt

Inside The Newsroom is home to the largest journalism jobs board, freelance board, calendar and media salaries database in the world.

Class War Daily

By Carl Gibson

Regular dispatches from the fight for the working class

CROW’s Substack

The Christian Right Observer Weekly (CROW) is a newsletter for people who want to learn more about the growing threat of Christian extremist movements.

Machine Hallucination

By Kathryn Cramer

Best bits from my research notes on the creative end of AI technologies such as large language models, text-to-image models, and related topics. Science fiction editor turned AI foresight researcher. I also farm & spray paint.

Ray Suarez

Ray Suarez is author of the new book "We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century," and the host of the radio program and podcast "On Shifting Ground with Ray Suarez." He hosted programs for NPR, PBS, and Al Jazeera America.

Don't let the flood of big-name blatherers make you overlook a genuine journalism giant...

- Jonathan Larsen