lists & favorites (in progress)

Note: You can get around the paywalls for many of these by checking Archive.ph or saving articles to a service like Paper2Audio . I get the email newsletters for all of these and save interesting pieces to read or listen to later. I welcome more suggestions!

• The Baffler — My favorite. Great balance of investigation and commentary; in-depth but accessible.
• Dissent Magazine — Shorter articles, mostly U.S.-focused, and well-rounded.
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• Jacobin — Sometimes a bit too lib for my taste, but accessible.
• In These Times — Labor-centered; a great introduction to issues.
• Prometheus Magazine — Newer, mostly British, more theory-centered, with a good writing style.
• Monthly Review — Very academic and long, with orthodox Marxist articles, but good.
• New Left Review — Hard paywall, but Sidecar is free. Covers lots of different topics and is consistently good.
• The Brooklyn Rail — The Critics Page section is good; broad-ranging.
• New Internationalist — One of my favorite sources for left international political analysis.
• Current Affairs — More accessible, kind of like Jacobin.
• Catalyst — Very academic and Marxist.
• London Review of Books — More left-leaning than most book-review publications; mostly UK stuff.
• Boston Review — Left-leaning essays, political analysis, criticism, and intellectual debate.
• ROAR Magazine — Anarchist-oriented and centered on grassroots organizing and social movements.
• CounterPunch — Commentary; usually pretty short and not especially in-depth.
• Drop Site News — Independent investigative reporting and international coverage.
• Z Magazine / ZNetwork — Shorter articles, grassroots-centered, and wide-ranging.
• Mondoweiss — Palestine-centered reporting and analysis.
• The Electronic Intifada — Palestine-centered reporting and analysis.
• Africa Is a Country — My favorite source for left criticism and analysis on Africa.

More Mainstream Sources for General News / Analysis

• The Intercept
• The New Republic
• The New Yorker
• Mother Jones
• The New Inquiry
• The Nation
• Jewish Currents
• ProPublica — Some of the best investigative reporting happening anywhere. I read almost everything they put out.

Criminal Justice

• The Marshall Project — Criminal justice and incarceration reporting.
• The Trace — Gun violence and gun-policy reporting.
• Prison Policy Initiative — Incarceration research, data, and policy analysis.

Labor

• Labor Notes — Rank-and-file labor reporting and organizing.
• New Labor Forum — Labor politics, strategy, and analysis.
• New Labor Press — Labor news, organizing, and worker-focused analysis.

Long-Form Journalism

• Longreads — i skim through their picks occassionally to see if there's anything good.

• Democracy Now
• BadEmpanada
• Unlearning Economics
• Some More News
• Empire Files (American imperialism)
• Luna oi! (Vietnam)
• Hakim
• More Perfect Union (labor)
• Mexie (environmentalism)
• The Gravel Institute
• Saint Andrewism
• Thought Slime **
• Philosophy Tube
• Second Thought (basic but well produced - I share these a lot)
• Radical Reviewer * (long but very entertaining book reviews)
• NonCompete
• José
• Intelexual Media
• We're In Hell
• PLN
• The Kavernacle
• That Dang Dad
• Marxist Paul (basic Marxist stuff)
• Mia Mulder
• Step Back **
• RE-EDUCATION
• YUGOPNIK
• Viki 1999
• Our Changing Climate
• Kat Blaque
• Alki
• T1J
• Zoe Baker
• Renegade Cut *
• LonerBox *
• Tom Nicholas *
• Good Politic Guy
• Spencer Snyder
• Another Slice
• Zoe Bee
• Big Joel
• AfroMarxist
• Shonalika
• Extra Andrewism
• Knowing Better
• Libertarian Leninist Rants
• Tristan Won't Shut Up **
• Innuendo Studios
• Socialist Swann (East Berlin)
• hbomberguy
• Black Red Guard
• Jack Saint
• Shaun
• Spooky Scary Socialist
• Jordan Theresa
• Kay and Skittles
• Libertarian Communist Platform
• Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy
• Verso Books
• NewAfrica
• TheBlackInternationalist
• Carlos Maza
• Three Arrows
• ContraPoints *
• Haymarket Books