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These are newsletters catching our attention.
The Atlantic editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and begin to understand how we got to this place.
Start and end your day with the stories that matter from Axios by Mike Allen, the world's most-wired reporter. Daily. Mornings and Evenings.
Founded in 2018, the Bulwark gives you political analysis and reporting without partisan loyalties or tribal prejudices.
No bull**** politics in 5 minutes. Understand it. Have fun with it. Get informed on your own damn terms.
Help Protect Voting Rights. Stay informed about the fight to protect Voting Rights.
The Cook Political Report is an independent, non-partisan newsletter that analyzes elections and campaigns for Congress, US Senate, Governors, and Presidents and American political trends.
538 focuses on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging, The blog is also a licensed feature of the NYT.
Heather is a professor of American history. This is a chronicle of today's political landscape and social customs. The newsletter explores what it means to be an American.
Message Box looks at the most recent polls, the biggest events, and the latest trends. Pfeiffer pulls back from the day-to-day punditry to explore how they are impacting American politics.
National Review has defined the modern conservative movement and enjoys the broadest allegiance among American conservatives.
Nonpartisan, independent, nonprofit, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking in money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy.
Strict Scrutiny is a podcast about the United States Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it.The show is hosted by three women, Leah Litman, Kate Shaw and Melissa Murray. They’ve got hot takes, jokes, and a lot to say.
A digital platform from filmmaker Ken Burns and his team. It's a resource, a conversation starter, a dose of historical context and traces the themes that run throughout our history and offers historical perspective to the present.
The Voter Protection Program advances strategies and recommendations to protect the vote and ensure that every vote is counted.
Listen to What A Day to get more pithy analysis of the world we live in and how long that world can possibly continue to exist.
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Podcasts
We Like
Podcasts we are listening to – we think you will like them too!
Future Hindsight is a weekly podcast that takes big ideas about civic life and democracy and turns them into action items for everyday people. Host Mila Atmos shares in-depth conversations with citizen changemakers, helping listeners realize the power they have to make real change.
Strongly-held opinions. Open-minded debates. A weekly ideas show, hosted by Jane Coaston.
Join Deval Patrick in conversation with uncommonly wise guests from across the country as we consider, in these extraordinary times, what it means or ought to mean to be American.
Charlie Sykes and guests discuss the latest news from inside Washington and around the world. No shouting, grandstanding, or sloganeering. Conservative, conscientious, and civil.
It's a once-a-week, 20 minutes compendium of things we can do to make a difference in our democracy!
What's the difference between the House and the Senate? How do congressional investigations work? What is Federalist X actually about? Civics 101 is the podcast refresher course on the basics of how our democracy works.
This is what the news should sound like. The biggest stories of our time, told by the best journalists in the world. Hosted by Michael Barbaro. Twenty minutes a day, five days a week, ready by 6 a.m.
Weekday mornings, The Daily Punch brings you inside Capitol Hill, the White House and Washington for an unfiltered look at the key players and stakes of all major issues of the day. People. Power. Politics. Hosted by Punchbowl News.
Each Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation on something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic of markets infiltrated too many aspects of our lives? What is the future of the Republican Party?
Nate Silver and the FiveThirtyEight team cover the latest in politics, tracking the issues, and "game-changers" every week.
Unfiltered, uncompromising, unexpected—The Focus Group is a look into what the average voter thinks about politics, policy, and current events. Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, will take you behind the glass to hear what real focus group participants have to say.
Hope, Through History, with Historian, Jon Meacham, explores some of the most historic and trying times in American History, how this nation dealt with them, the impact of them, and how we came through these moments a unified nation.
The New Yorker’s editor, David Remnick, presents interviews, profiles, and humor, in a co-production with WNYC Studios.
Host Kelly McEvers takes a story from the news and goes deep. Whether that means digging into the Trump administration's past, the stories behind police shootings caught on video, or visiting a town ravaged by the opioid epidemic. It takes you where the news is happening.
Every weekday, NPR's best political reporters are there to explain the big news coming out of Washington and the campaign trail. They don't just tell you what happened. They tell you why it matters. Every afternoon.
For anyone discouraged by our current political discourse, Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers bring a nuanced and grace-filled perspective to discussions about politics and news.
Every Tuesday and Friday, Recode’s Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics.
Four former aides to President Obama—Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor—are joined by journalists, politicians, activists, and more for a no-b******t conversation about politics. They cut through the noise to break down the week’s news.
Politics in America is transforming. Using the lessons learned working with The Lincoln Project, the show will deepen our understanding of who we are, how we got here, and how we rebuild without repeating the mistakes of the past.
Joyce Vance, Jill Wine-Banks, Barb McQuade, and Kimberly Atkins will pull back the curtain on how our government actually works, take on the corrupt, share their wisdom, and give us their rulings on the latest in politics, law, and culture.
Post Reports is the premier daily podcast from The Washington Post. Unparalleled reporting. Expert insight. Clear analysis. Every weekday afternoon.
Join former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as he breaks down legal topics in the news and engages thought leaders in a pocast about power, policy, and justice.
Professor Elizabeth Joh teaches Intro to Constitutional Law and most of the time this is a pretty straight forward job. But the executive office has changed and Joh will look at how it now jibes with 200 years of the judicial branch interpreting and ruling on the Constitution.
Born in the USA is a series of conversations between the former Commander in Chief and Bruce Springsteen about their lives, their favorite music, and their enduring love of America, despite all its challenges and contradictions.
Power, unpacked. “Sway” is an interview show hosted by Kara Swisher, “Silicon Valley’s most feared and well liked journalist.”
- Future Hindisght with Mila Atmos
- The Argument
- Being American
- The Bulwark
- Chop Wood, Carry Water, Jessica Craven
- Civics 101 from New Hampshire Public Library
- The Daily from the New York Times
- The Daily Punch
- Ezra Klein Show from the New York Times
- FiveThirtyEight
- The Focus Group
- Hope through History from the History Channel
- The New Yorker Radio Hour
- NPR Embedded
- NPR Politics
- Pantsuit Politics
- Pivot from NY Magazine and Vox News
- Pod Save America from Crooked Media
- Politicology
- Politicon
- The Post Reports
- Preet Bharara and Cafe
- Radiotopia
- Renegades: Born in the USA
- Strict Scrutiny
- Sway from The New York Times
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Use PolitiFact For Non-partisan Fact-checking
The proliferation of news sources and the ease and speed of social media — combined with readers’ short attention spans and tendency to just read the headlines — make it easy for readers to fall for fake news.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, PolitiFact is a non-partisan fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics. Each day, PolitiFact journalist researchers look for statements to fact-check – reading transcripts, speeches, news stories, press releases, and campaign brochures; watching TV; and, scanning social media.
Use this resource with its various rating systems to sort out fact from fiction for yourself.
