Maybe this will get moved to the Politics Forum, but let’s try to get a conversation going.
What do you read on a daily basis and by extension, what newsletters/podcasts do you follow? Not everything is politics. What should I add? What am I missing?
Washington Post (30 years, not sure when I will give it up; still have a paper sub but I have read most of it online by the time the paper is in the driveway).
New York Times
Wall Street Journal
The Guardian
Podcasts/Substacks:
Chris Cillizza (former Washington Post and CNN politics reporter)
Heather Cox Richardson
Kara Swisher/Scott Galloway
Dave Ramsey
Every evening, I scroll through College Confidential, Bogleheads, and DCUrbanMom.
In between Instagram and a little bit of Threads and Facebook, there’s X and Reddit.
TBH, I wake up to Facebook . I have NYT subscription, The Atlantic Subscription, listen to The Daily and Letters from an American (HCR), The Coffee Klatch when I remember.
We cancelled our WaPo subscription once Bezos made his journalistic concepts clear.
DH gets NYT from work, also has a subscription to Wired.
We had The Atlantic, which is awesome, but it depressed me too much.
No longer have a local or regional newspaper (as in, they have shuttered the business) But we do get a stack of physical Sunday papers most every week that cover our state.
I read AP and Reuters every morning. I also read the Bucks County Journal and Forbes. I follow two Substacks as well : Curmudgucation (education policy and politics) and Your Local Epidemiologist (HHS policies explained)
I am aware of HCR but she is preaching to this choir, so as I try to moderate my daily rage, she’s optional.
I don’t know why I didn’t remember this but my default home page is Associated Press, it was ProPublica and I read both I wasn’t used to searching for them since they just popped up every day.
Fb, SmartNews. It’s generally not my cup of tea but when breaking news happens I go to Daily Mail because while it generally low quality journalism they report verified breaking news fast
Apple News subscription;I still have WaPo until it ends in November. I enjoy the restaurant reviews and the dining chat. NYT; BBC; Le Monde; Aaron Parnas substack.
I grew up with a journalist dad so this pains me to say. Less and less news. It’s just not good for my mental health. We read 3 papers cover to cover growing up.
I get the Philadelphia Inquirer, and I look at Apple News as a good aggregated source. I subscribe to the NYT online (Sunday print) and get breaking news emails from them.
I never watch any news on TV. No GMA, no CNN, no local news. Can’t stand it, unless it’s election night or something.
I subscribe to YLE who is amazing. And I read a lot of HCR because her stuff is shared on my FB friends’ pages often.
My son turned me on to it. All college kids and up should listen to these guy’s. Such common sense methods. Like $150/month invested at 25 leads to like multiple millions at retirement or start with 10%of your income and add 1% each year till you get to 25%and even if you avg $50,000/year you end up with like $3.8 million at retirement. Damn. Wish I knew that many moons ago. Back to our regular programming.
I love reading the Inquirer, but every time I go to subscribe for real the pricetag makes me wince. Which is exactly how papers go out of business, so I need to stop wincing…
. I have NYT subscription, The Atlantic Subscription, listen to The Daily and Letters from an American (HCR), The Coffee Klatch when I remember.