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1440

The most impactful stories of the day, expertly curated and explained

Wading through thousands of headlines, op-eds, and algorithm-driven news feeds has left intellectually curious Americans frustrated with their options. That's why we started 1440 - a fact-driven news and knowledge resource that respects your time and intelligence. Curated by humans, not algorithms.

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News - Fact Focused

Aaron Parnas

The Parnas Perspective

Independent Journalist, Attorney, Strategist.

You won’t have to worry about missing anything. Every new edition of the newsletter goes directly to your inbox.

Use Instagram link below to see frequent updates in real-time.

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News - Fact Focused

Against the Current

A Socialist Journal

Analytical and activist journal sponsored by Solidarity. As part of our larger project of regroupment and dialogue within the U.S. Left, the journal presents varying points of view on a wide variety of issues.

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News - Context/ Commentary

Aljazeera

Breaking News - World News and Video

In-depth journalism that is relevant to its audience, giving them a broad and deep perspective on regional and international affairs, putting the human being directly at the centre of the news agenda.

Extensive reach in over 150 countries and territories in more than 430 million homes.

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News - International

Anand Giridharadas

The Ink

We ask the hardest questions about politics and culture, money and power.

The media is in crisis. The old sources of trust and authority are crumbling, but we’re also living through a media renaissance, and we’re betting that newsletters — like this one — are a big part of that.

The Ink Book ClubBook: The Persuaders
Political Commentator

Anat Shenker-Osorio

ASO Communications

Words to Win By - Don't Take the Temperature, Change It.

We uncover where people are capable of going & how to use our words, images & stories to move them.
If your words don’t spread, they don’t work. This requires constant repetition. Our messages must persuade the middle & energize the base.

Words to Win By PodcastMessaging Guides
Messaging Best Practices

Antonia Scatton

Reframing America

Hacking the public debate with cognitive science.

Reframing America is about questioning the assumptions in our public debate that restrict our thinking, and proposing new and better ways of talking about what’s happening in our country and in our lives.

What Democrats BelieveBlueprint for a Better Party
Messaging Best Practices

Borowitz Report

Comedian and Writer

Independent Newsletter

I’ve been writing satirical news since I was eighteen. This represents either commitment to a genre or arrested development.

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News - Satire

Democracy Now

Independent Global News

Breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues.

As an independent news program, our editorial independence is never compromised by corporate or government interests.

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News - Fact Focused

Deutsche Welle

Made for Minds

Germany's international broadcaster. We provide impartial news and information, giving people worldwide the opportunity to form their own opinions, assess issues of local and global significance and participate in social debates as active and informed citizens.

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News - International

George Lakoff

Frame Lab

We deconstruct propaganda to help you defend democracy

We our readers understand how political language works, and to illuminate the key frames in our political discourse – ideological structures that are often hiding in plain sight. We also analyze and deconstruct propaganda tactics.

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Messaging Best Practices

Heather Cox Richardson

Letters from an American

I'm a history professor interested in the contrast between image and reality in American politics. I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures.

This is a chronicle of today’s political landscape, it explores what it means, and what it has meant, to be an American.

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Political Commentator - Historian

Jay Kuo

The Status Kuo

I launched this newsletter as a way to take a deep dive into important political and legal topics, broken down in plain English & easily digestible morsels. We created a community here of folks committed to protecting the rule of law, our civil institutions & the future of our democracy.

Book: MA IN ALL CAPSThe Big Picture
Political Commentator - Lawyer

Jess Piper

The View from Rural Missouri

I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyond from a rural progressive point of view.

I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri.

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Political Commentator - Rural Perspective

Jessica Craven

Chop Wood Carry Water

A daily political activism newsletter that comes out 5 days a week.

If you’re here you’ve decided you’d like to do a bit more to help our country avoid a collapse into authoritarianism. You’ve made an excellent & patriotic choice & you’re about to start feeling a lot better about everything.

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Daily Actions

Joyce Vance

Civil Discourse

Worried about the state of the republic? Get the legal knowledge & analysis you need to be an advocate for democracy, along with a dose of savvy optimism

I believe that being a citizen is the most important work any of us can do, a key part of our role is to educate ourselves & stay informed

Book: Giving Up Is UnforgivablePodcasts
Political Commentator - Lawyer

Judd Legum

Popular Information

Daily news and analysis that respects you as a citizen.

You’ll get in-depth information and perspective on the things that really matter. In 2008, I was Hillary Clinton’s Research Director, which means I was in charge of researching her and her opponents.

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Political Commentator

Kimberle Crenshaw

African America Policy Forum

Promotes efforts to dismantle structural inequality. We utilize new ideas & innovative perspectives to transform public discourse and policy. We promote strategies that embrace the intersections of race, gender, class & the array of barriers that disempower those who are marginalized in society.

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Human Rights

Meidas Touch Network

Meidas Touch

We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy. Because TRUTH is golden.

We don’t just cover the news; we provide context, clarity, and commentary on the stories shaping the future of democracy. We don’t fall into the traps of the “both-sides” media.

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News - Context/ Commentary

Native News Online

Native Power Threatened

Important daily news that affects the lives of Native Americans nationwide. It reaches millions of Native and non-Native readers annually including American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and others interested in Native American concerns.

CurrentsOpinionSovereigntyEnvironment
Indigenous Rights

New Black Voices

Different Shades, Scattered Globally, Same Goals!

Diversity, Inclusion & Equality Inc’s mission is to educate businesses and the general public on issues of diversity, inclusion and equality. It educates on the disadvantages of resistance to diversity and inclusion, which can lead to inequality.

Civil RightsBlack LeadershipBlack Health
Racial Justice

Open Secrets

Follow the Money

Nonpartisan, independent, nonprofit

OpenSecrets is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Our mission is to track the flow of money in American politics and provide the data and analysis to strengthen democracy.

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Fact Checking

Paul Krugman

Nobel Prize winning economist

Nobel laureate in economics. 2000-2024, New York Times opinion writer

Subscribers will receive each new newsletter in their inbox. Most of my stuff, above all weekday posts driven by current events, will be free.

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Political Commentator - Economist

Popular Resistance

Daily Movement News and Resources

Our mission is to aid in bringing movements for peace and economic, racial and environmental justice together into an independent, nonviolent and diverse movement that can end the power of concentrated wealth, shift power to the people and put human needs before corporate greed.

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News - Context/ Commentary

Poynter

Journalism. Truth. Democracy.

The Poynter Institute is a global nonprofit.

Through teaching, publishing, convening, fact-checking and media literacy, Poynter creates a crossroads where communities come together to use journalism to confront society’s complex problems.

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News - Investigative/ Research

Propublica

Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest

ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force.

To expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform.

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News - Investigative/ Research

Prospect Magazine

Escape the Echo Chamber

UK’s outstanding monthly current affairs title—a home for fine writing, robust debate and considered reflection on the biggest issues of our time.

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News - Context/ Commentary

Pulitzer Center

Stories Make Complex Issues Relevant

The Pulitzer Center champions the power of stories to make complex issues relevant and inspire action, stories on underreported issues ranging from health and social justice to climate change.

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News - Investigative/ Research

Robert Hubbell

Today's Edition

The newsletter started in February 2017 as my effort to provide hope and perspective to my family after the unexpected results of the 2016 election. Over time, my family email was shared among friends and became of community of like-minded citizens devoted to preserving American democracy.

PodcastNotes
Political Commentator - Lawyer

Robert Reich

Substack Newsletter

The dark forces of authoritarianism are with us, along with growing inequality and corruption. There’s no simple remedy. But part of the answer is to grow a community of people committed to spreading the truth and contributing to a better world. Which is why I’m here, and presumably why you are.

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Political Commentator - Economist

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Lucid

Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University. She writes about fascism, authoritarianism, propaganda, and the threats these present to democracies around the world.

Book: StrongmenVideos
Political Commentator - Historian

Simon Rosenberg

Hopium Chronicles

Hopium is a rejection of the darkness MAGA is trying to spread. It is a way of standing up for our great country and its remarkable people. I am calling it Hopium Chronicles because I want this to be a journey guided by hope and optimism, of belief in ourselves, in love of country and a clear understanding of the nature of the conflict we are in.

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Political Commentator

Snopes

Fighting Misinformation

The latest news and politics fact checks.

When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes’ fact-checking and original investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis. We always link to and document

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Fact Checking

Talking Points Memo

A Better Kind of Media Company

An independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis.

We keep close tabs on the political fringe — militias, white nationalists, conspiracy theorists and more — because we believe they are greater drivers of American politics than mainstream news coverage allows.

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News - Context/ Commentary

The Bulwark

Honest news. Smart analysis. Good faith.

The Bulwark was founded to provide analysis and reporting in defense of America’s liberal democracy, home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, and more.

News and analysis on politics and culture—supported by a community built on good-faith.

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News - Context/ Commentary

The Contrarian

Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy.

The Contrarian is that alternative: unflinching, unapologetic, and unwavering in its commitment to truth-telling.

The Contrarian contributors may not agree on all issues, but we share an unequivocal determination to defend our fundamental freedoms and the values essential to a pluralistic democracy.

Substack Newsletter
News - Fact Focused

The F*cking News

Jonathan Larsen

Weekday-morning newsletter, aggregating, contextualizing, and commenting rudely on the day’s news.

My goals with TFN are to screen out bullshit that doesn’t matter, help navigate bullshit that does, and surface bullshit you might not otherwise know about.

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News - Irreverent

The Forum

Magazine

Insights of critical race theory to re-envision American democracy

Existing media blithely treats all this as a series of scarcely related developments& reflexively consigns new elements of the reassertion of antidemocraticracial power to the comfortable, numbing template of both-sidesist orthodoxy

Critical Race Theory and the BacklashVoting RightsSchool WarsDemocracy in Balance
News - Context/ Commentary

The Intercept

We expose corruption and injustice

We see journalism as an instrument of civic action. We’re here to change the world, not just describe it.

The Intercept aspires to drive meaningful change by empowering the public with information to demand a better world from institutions and leaders.

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News - Context/ Commentary

The Kyiv Independant

The latest news and stories from Ukraine

The Kyiv Independent is Ukraine’s fastest-growing English-language media outlet.

No matter what comes next, we’ll keep reporting — and you can help us.

Become a member of our community.

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News - International

Thom Hartmann

The Hartmann Report

The latest views and opinions from US politics, plus other fascinating subjects, including cutting-edge science reports.

Psychotherapist, international relief worker. Politics, history, spirituality, psychology, science, anthropology, pre-history, culture, and the natural world.

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Political Commentator - Psychologist

Timothy Snyder

Thinking About

Thinking is always “about.” It never lands.

I will do some thinking, and we will do some thinking together. I like the idea of trying to transform the internet, at least our little corner of it, into a sane space.

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Political Commentator - Historian