Knowing where to turn for excellent news and analysis is always important… especially in turbulent times. Below are some great sources to explore.

Suggested Sources of Analyses for Activists & Organizers

• Convergence: A Magazine for Radical Insights.
• The Forge: Organizing Strategy & Practice.
• Hammer & Hope: A Magazine of Black Politics & Culture.
• Waging Nonviolence: People Powered News & Analysis.

Suggested Newsletters from Excellent Thinkers

• Wajahat Ali: The Left Hook.
• Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Lucid.
• Jamelle Bouie: New York Times opinion writer.
• Carole Cadwalladr: The Power.
• Jessica Craven: Chop Wood, Carry Water.
• Max Elbaum: writings at Convergence Magazine.
• Anand Giridharadas: The Ink.
• Daniel Hunter: writings at Waging Nonviolence.
• Sherrilyn Ifill: Sherrilyn’s Newsletter.
• Mark Jacobs: Stop the Presses.
• Kevin Kruse: Campaign Trails.
• Scot Nakagawa: The Antiauthoritarian Playbook.
• Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American.
• Aaron Rupar: Public Notice.
• Greg Sargent: Daily Blast.
• Timothy Snyder: Thinking About…
• Rebecca Solnit: Meditations in an Emergency.

Suggested Left & Progressive News Sources

• The Boston Review.
• Common Dreams.
• Democracy Now!
• The Intercept.
• Jacobin.
• Mother Jones.
• Ms. Magazine.
• The Nation.
• The New Republic.
• The New Yorker (see especially Jane Mayer, Bill McKibben, Ronan Farrow, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.)
• Talking Points Memo.
• Truthout.

Popular Magazines with Good Progressive Writing

• Rolling Stone.
• Teen Vogue.
• Wired.

Suggested Mainstream News Sources

• The Guardian.
• NPR.
• The Washington Post.