Trusted news sources
With so much fake news out there, and even more media putting profits or partisanship first, I thought it would be useful for us to share our trusted news sources.
Here are mine:
Solid news
- Financial Times: How I start my day. I'm particularly fond of their Brussels Briefing; Janan Ganesh, for US politics, transatlantic perspective and culture; Edward Luce, for US politics; and Simon Kuper, for a perspective from Paris.
- Politico Europe: Probably the best pan-European news outlet.
Left
- Frank Bruni at The New York Times.
- Marina Hyde at The Guardian. If you were to read just one columnist on UK politics, make it her. She is extremely sharp, witty and cuts through the bullshit.
- Judd Legum's Popular Information. Judd worked on Hillary Clinton's campaign and is very critical of big (tech) companies.
- Vox: Top-quality journalism from a left-wing perspective. In particular: Zack Beauchamp, for ideology; Ezra Klein, for big-picture politics; German Lopez, for criminal justice and drug policy; Matthew Yglesias, for American politics.
Right
- The Bulwark and The Dispatch: Both principled conservative, anti-Trump. I especially like David French, Jonah Goldberg, Jonathan V. Last and Charles Sykes.
- Quillette: Sometimes lurches a little too far right for my tastes, but publishes thought-provoking pieces.
- Matthew D'Ancona: Boris-skeptic Conservative.
- Andrew Sullivan: Gay, conservative, anti-Trump, anti-SJW, always original.
Center
- The American Interest: One of the best for foreign-policy analysis from an American point-of-view. In particular I recommend: Richard Thompson Ford, for race and identity issues in the United States; Adam Garfinkle, for the Middle East; and Dalibor Rohac, for Europe.
- Arc Digital: Diverse opinion magazine.
- Persuasion: Pro-liberal democracy newsletter and community curated by Yascha Mounk.
- Jonathan Bernstein: If you're interested in US politics, you have to read Bernstein. He's one of the most intelligent and knowledgeable commentators.
- Fred Kaplan: National-security columnist.
- Niskanen Center: Former libertarians trying to find a middle ground between neoliberalism and social democracy.
- And, of course, I recommend my own Atlantic Sentinel!
International
- France: Tocqueville 21, Anglo-French blog.
- Israel: Times of Israel is my go-to source for news. If I want analysis, I read Michael Koplow's Ottomans and Zionists.
- Netherlands: Ben Coates is a British-born writer living in the Netherlands.
- Spain: El Pais English is good but, like all Madrid-based media, overly critical of Catalan nationalism. That's why I also read the pro-independence El Nacional.
- Russia: Mark Galeotti is one of the best. Read his blog, In Moscow's Shadows. I also recommend my friend Andras' No Yardstick.
Comments
Promising initiative by Yascha Mounk: Persuasion, a community/newsletter in defense of liberal democracy. It includes center-left thinkers, like Sheri Berman and Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Never-Trump conservatives, like Jonathan Haidt, David French and David Frum.
I like the Japan Times and NHK when it coems to international news, I've often seen them report about European newsitems that European MSM wouldn't even touch.
I love how you have a list including all political sides, most excellent!
I think suggest everybody who is serious about following the news, and wants to participate in the public debate, should read at least one publication that doesn't share their politics.
It's all too easy to be trapped in an echo chamber on social media.
I agree with you on that one!
Added Arc Digital, Persuasion and Quillette to the list.
This is a good reminder why you shouldn't rely on TV news for anything but breaking news: everything - the topics, the interviews, the guests - is determined by ratings, not by a journalistic determination of what is important and what viewers need to know.