Substacks recommended by Mike Pesca

Recommended by Mike Pesca

Something's coming, something good.

Longview is for the curious and open minded. We tell deeply-reported, carefully-crafted stories about the most pressing and interesting stories in our world.

Audio geniuses at work. Possibly regular geniuses too.

- Mike Pesca

Robcast

By Rob Schulte

A weekly recap of what I’m watching, discussing, and recording (plus a photo of Elvis)

The Junction

By Daniel Lazar

The Junction of my passions: teaching and learning, history and politics, podcasting and parenting, creating and caring.

Chris Best

Co-founder and CEO of Substack

Eric Zorn: The Picayune Sentinel

Chicago, Illinois and national politics with a dash of humor, music and sports

Political Currents by Ross Barkan

This is Ross Barkan's newsletter - original essays on politics, society, and culture

Dog Shirt Daily

By Benjamin Wittes

The #BeastOfTheDay Had to Go Somewhere

Ukrainian special ops + All the no bullshit Trump / Jan. 6 legal analysis you can handle

- Mike Pesca

Your Local Epidemiologist

By Katelyn Jetelina

Providing a direct line of "translated" public health science to you, so you can take action for your community's health

Make More Pie

By Nancy Rommelmann

Media, culture, journalism, murder, and the occasional baking of actual pie

Numlock News

By Walter Hickey

The best way to start your morning. Numlock celebrates great stories buried in the news that you won't find elsewhere. It's snappy, funny, and informative, plus it's ad-free. Try it out and see why thousands of people wake up to Numlock every single day.

Range Widely

By David Epstein

The newsletter for generalists.

They Stand Corrected

By Josh Levs

Ex-CNN fact checker cutting through the media's lies to deliver the truth. Readers and listeners say: "The standard of truth." "Never before has a podcast like this been so necessary."

Fearless, thought provoking, keeping the anti-zionist crowd as honest as one man can.

- Mike Pesca

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast

A podcast from the outskirts of the zeitgeist

Can't Get Much Higher

By Chris Dalla Riva

The intersection of music and data

Unbelievably sharp, fun creative application of statistics to pop music and pop culture.

- Mike Pesca

Rarely Certain

By The Rarely Certain newsletter

Welcome to the post-tribal struggle. Being 'right' is overrated anyway. It's not what you think, it's why you think it. Some posts about personal subjective wellbeing (not self-help shit).

Interesting, unexpected, well-informed.

- Mike Pesca

The Free Press

By Bari Weiss

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

NewsGuard's Reality Check

A report on how false claims online are undermining trust — and who’s behind them. Produced by co-CEOs Steven Brill, Gordon Crovitz, and the NewsGuard Team.

There are many services that aim to define what are credible sources and what aren't. I trust NewsGuard the most. ( Not a paid advertisement, just a pleased consumer.)

- Mike Pesca

Everything That Makes Me Happy Makes Me Sad

By Dan McNamee

I wrote a series of letters to my sons and wife after I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Somehow, I'm still alive, don't have cancer & the letters became a book. I don't understand any of this either, but I am trying to figure it out.

The Ask Podcast Substack

By Cliff & Waise

The Ask is a podcast hosted by Waise Azimi and Cliff W. Gilmore that humbly explores life, the universe and everything. A new episode is recorded every month.

Waise Azimi has on great guests like David French Elliot Ackerman and Sebastian Junger., AND - this is important - asks them good questions. Check it out!

- Mike Pesca

The World According to Brian

By Brian Rosenwald

What you need to know about politics and the media each week, with an occasional dash of sports, music and more. For more about me: visit my website: brianrosenwald.com

Truth and Consequences

By Michael A. Cohen

A no-holds-barred look at the absurdities, hypocrisies, and surreality of American politics

House of Strauss

By Ethan Strauss

Sports, Business, Politics, Culture

"It's Ottessa, bitch."

By Ottessa

"I give of myself unto thee." -Ottessa Moshfegh

The Fifth Column (A Podcast)

Your weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves.

I love these guys. As funny as they are pointed. The Trio with Brio. Give a listen.

- Mike Pesca

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy.

Better Conflict Bulletin

By jonathan@betterconflictbulletin.org

News and analysis for a better culture war, ways to collaborate with the other side. Evidence and data-driven. Some people fight harder, we fight smarter.

Subterranea

By Oren Kessler

The buried, the overlooked, the obscured. Archival digs into the world’s most written-about, and least understood, patch of earth: The one between the river and the sea.

Imperfect Information

By Rajiv Sethi

On economics, identity, justice, and discourse...

Political Calculus

By Ben Ansell

A Substack on the connections between politics and the economy from the author of Why Politics Fails.

Oppenheimer

Religion, politics, etc. Things can seem pretty broken—but there is a way back. It will definitely involve neighborhood, religion (in my case, Judaism), family, other old truths. And coffee ice cream. And the way-back seat in the station wagon.

An honest broker, and interesting writer.

- Mike Pesca

So What

By Chris Cillizza

An independent news creator. I call balls and strikes no matter what uniform the batter at the plate is wearing. Fair and fearless. Not owned by a billionaire or a massive media conglomerate.

One of the all time honest brokers.

- Mike Pesca

The End of My Career

By Joel Stein

How to have a midlife crisis without leaving your house

The Weekly Dish

By Andrew Sullivan

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle," - George Orwell.

I Might Be Wrong

By Jeff Maurer

Comedy, politics, and swearing in pretty much equal amounts.

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

The safe space for dangerous ideas.

Mike Sub-Sacks

By Mike Sacks

A bi-monthly paid-subscription-only column about the nuances behind writing comedy, interviews with those in comedy (performers and writers), lists, , trivia, the greats, the assholes, how to get published, what not to do.

Eminent Americans

By Daniel Oppenheimer

A newsletter and podcast about the contemporary American intellectual scene.

Beyond Intractability

By Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess

Free updates about BI’s exploration of strategies for more constructively handling all types of intractable conflict, including the hyper-polarized, political conflicts that are tearing society apart.

The Best of Journalism

By Conor Friedersdorf

Links to exceptional nonfiction. Stay informed and engaged without the anxiety of endlessly surfing the web.

The Liberal Patriot

By John Halpin

Political and policy analysis from the vital center.

kenpom's thoughts

By Ken Pomeroy

This is where kenpom writes about stuff

Blocked and Reported

By Jesse Singal

A Podcast About Internet Controversies

Funny How: Letters to a Young Comedian

By Matt Ruby

Comic Matt Ruby offers standup comedy philosophy, advice, and inspirational quotes from great comedians. Some praise for posts here...Judd Apatow: "Great." Gary Gulman: “Love this!”