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Recommended by American Prestige

The free, weekly features of America’s oldest general-interest monthly.

Launched in 2000, this free, weekly email collates and reflows news from the past seven days into a satirical chronicle. It’s like the Harper’s Index or Findings, but takes aim at the relentless absurdity of the 24-hour news cycle.

- American Prestige

Global Dispatches

By Mark Leon Goldberg

Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Human Rights, Global Development, Crises, Conflicts, the United Nations, and International Relations. We shine a bright spotlight on world news other outlets ignore.

Warfare and Welfare

By Michael Brenes

on war, politics, political economy, and connections between them.

Wars Of Future Past

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Irregular newsletters about war, robots, and other bad futures

Discourse Blog

Politics and culture from the left.

Discourse Blog has gathered an all-star team of happy warriors taking on politics and pop culture from the mainstream to the peripheries. Keep your mind intact and have a few laughs while they hold your hand through the madness of our time.

- American Prestige

Nonzero Newsletter

By Robert Wright

Politics, psychology, and tips on averting the apocalypse.

Un-Diplomatic

By Van Jackson

Global power politics, for the people. Un-Diplomatic is committed to thinking through a foreign policy opposed to oligarchs, militarists, and other scumbags who have undue influence over our dystopian world politics.

Foreign Exchanges

By Derek Davison

Daily roundups of world news and thoughtful commentary on US foreign policy.