The best Policy newsletters

The Portugal Brief covers Portuguese news with practical detail on legal changes, taxes and policy for English-speaking expats and digital nomads. Each issue explains what a rule means in practice, who it affects and when it takes effect.

Espresso is a daily newsletter that digs into consequential failures, investigations and recoveries across technology, business and policy. Its issues offer reported, detailed accounts of specific cases, such as a civil servant's alleged fraud and a nuclear developer's collapsing revenue, with careful attribution of claims.

A news-focused newsletter covering US state policy and regulation, with recent issues on Pennsylvania child-care bonuses, Oregon homeland-security grants and California chemical controls. Readers get concise, sourced explanations of who qualifies for programs, deadlines and what legal changes mean in practice.

A security practitioner's newsletter with short essays on bug bounty triage, AI's effect on vulnerability research, and the economics of security. It mixes conference reflections, recommendations for industry change, and excerpts from podcast conversations.

A long-running UBI advocate's newsletter that mixes behavioural science, economics and policy critique, arguing for unconditional income, automation taxes and Medicare for All. The excerpts show a clear point of view backed by cited research and specific policy detail, though they are opinion-led rather than reporting.

Blog updates from the OpenSAFELY Schools project, a collaboration between the National Institute of Teaching and the Bennett Institute, on deploying a secure research platform for school and teacher data. Readers get technical and policy accounts of adapting the OpenSAFELY platform from NHS GP data to education data, including the ehrQL and SQL Runner trade-offs.

This newsletter argues that America must build far more electricity, with AI and other large data-center customers paying for new power supply through long-term contracts. It draws on industry surveys, investment figures and comparisons with China to make the case for faster energy buildout.

Feed The AI tracks the business side of artificial intelligence, covering investment, the labor market and policy. Recent issues explain why AI labs are seeking real business workflow data, give a primer on brain-computer interfaces, and offer a 2026 robotics funding tracker.

Joe Lonsdale's podcast-style newsletter features long interview episodes with technology founders, policymakers and AI researchers, including Ramp's Eric Glyman, OPM Director Scott Kupor and Anthropic's Sholto Douglas and Nicholas Marwell. Readers get show notes, episode summaries and guest takeaways on AI, government reform and startup building.

MTS is a daily-style AI and tech news digest written with a playful 'monitors' voice, covering frontier AI labs, big-tech moves and policy developments. Each issue pairs short news summaries with commentary and occasional guest essays on the implications of AI.

This is the corporate newsletter from Thorn's Safer product, announcing new CSAM and child sexual exploitation detection features and sharing its impact figures. It also covers policy developments such as the expiry of the EU legal basis for proactive CSAM detection.