8 newsletters, ranked by editorial quality and how recently they published. Looking for something more specific? Search instead.
Timothy Garton Ash's newsletter offers personal and analytical reflections from a European 'historian of the present' on current events, history, and European politics. Readers get essays tying contemporary issues like Russian aggression toward Ukraine, French student protests, and tributes to figures like Adam Michnik to deeper historical context.
Anne Applebaum's personal newsletter offers long-form commentary on US foreign policy toward Russia and Ukraine, transatlantic politics, corruption and democracy. Readers get her sharp, sourced analysis of Trump administration decisions and their conflicts of interest.
A long-running newsletter by Phillips O'Brien offering a critical, strongly opinionated take on US policy toward Russia and Ukraine under Trump, with weekly updates and reality-check essays. Readers get a pointed, partisan analysis of sanctions, alliances and the front-line war.
A newsletter from the Renew Democracy Initiative offering political analysis of Western responses to Russia, Ukraine and authoritarian threats, with a strong focus on US policy under Trump. It pairs op-ed-style commentary by Garry Kasparov and others with podcast interviews and calls for specific policy action.
Scott Ritter's Substack offers geopolitical commentary and analysis, often critical of Western policy toward Russia and Ukraine, alongside video episodes like Trump Watch and The Russia House. Readers get a strongly opinionated, former-weapons-inspector perspective on Middle East, European and US-Russia affairs.
Glenn Diesen's Substack publishes video interviews and podcast-style conversations with geopolitical commentators on US decline, Russia, Ukraine, NATO and the EU. Each issue is mostly a short description plus a link-heavy support and merchandise footer, with the substance delivered through the embedded discussion.
Simplicius's Garden of Knowledge is a Substack newsletter offering pro-Russian-leaning geopolitical commentary on the Ukraine war, western diplomacy and conflict events. Readers get a running take on peace negotiations, Ukrainian strikes inside Russia and reporting-based claims about US and European policy toward Kyiv.
A daily-style political news roundup focused on Trump administration actions, Ukraine, Russia policy, Elon Musk, and the 2026 midterm elections, written from a strongly anti-Trump perspective. Each issue pairs short updates with a call for paid subscriptions and promised investigations.
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