A personal notebook by Alejandro Pino blending reflections on music, organizing, and democracy with firsthand reporting from earthquake relief work in Sevilla, Colombia. Essays are discursive and opinionated, with a skeptical eye on AI and corporate hype.
Website: https://alejandro-pino.com/
Rebecca Solnit publishes essays and analyses on politics, democracy, technology, climate and culture, often drawing on history and personal experience. Readers get reflective, opinionated long-form writing, including occasional republished older essays.
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.
Combinations is an essay-driven publication from the RadicalxChange Foundation that examines economics, democracy, and the relationship between technology and power through long-form political theory. Each issue offers a deep, referenced argument on questions such as secular moral purpose, planetary governance, and how authority and voting interact.
The UnPopulist is a political newsletter defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and abroad. Recent issues cover U.S. policy toward Ukraine, alleged executive pressure on Rep. Ilhan Omar, and book-length analysis of populism in Europe.
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