Substacks recommended by Lucian K. Truscott IV

Recommended by Lucian K. Truscott IV

Political Currents by Ross Barkan

This is Ross Barkan's newsletter - original essays on politics, society, and culture

Morning Memo

By David Kurtz (TPM)

The essential political news roundup from David Kurtz and the team at TPM.

Tracy’s Substack

By Tracy Harris

My personal Substack

Lewis Grossberger's Raw Truth Bulletin

Uncovering all the real news that they don't want you to know. (One day we may even find out who they are)

Patti Smith

The reader is my notebook

Weapons and Strategy

By Stephen Bryen

Weapons, military power, technology, war and deterrence

Public Notice

By Aaron Rupar

everyone is entitled to my own opinion

By Jeff Tiedrich

I read the news today, oh boy

Want a genuine screed in your inbox every day. Here it is. Subscribe. You'll be delighted.

- Lucian K. Truscott IV

The Bulwark

The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, Catherine Rampell and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and culture—supported by a community built on good faith.

Musings of a Dissolute Wastrel by JPV Oliver, Gent

By JPV Oliver

Funny Intellectual Hijinks Abetted by Vulgar Lowbrow Antics

Sanity Clause

By Joe Klein

As the Marx Brothers said, there ain't no sanity clause--but these are my latest thoughts about politics, policy, culture, books and other stuff.

Wisdom from an old pro who's been through the political wars between the parties and within each of them. Absolutely necessary reading for anyone who cares about the world of American politics...even the demented version played by one of our two parties today.

- Lucian K. Truscott IV

The Paris Review

The Entropy Hotel

By Henriette Lazaridis

lessons on creative challenges drawn from sports and the outdoors

You have GOT to subscribe to this newsletter!

- Lucian K. Truscott IV

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

By Joyce Vance

Worried about the state of the republic? Get the legal knowledge & analysis you need to be an advocate for democracy, along with a dose of savvy optimism.

And It Don't Stop

By Robert Christgau

Robert Christgau's weekly newsletter. Music. Books. Politics. Old Age.

Today's Edition Newsletter

By Robert Hubbell

A reflection on today's news through the lens of hope.

DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before

By Brad DeLong

Both the millennia past and the new millennium. The economic world: working, making, apportioning, talking, & more. What I learn about it, largely through history, as I bet that humans are such the same that the future resonates if not reflects the past.

Read him for years. Reading him now on Substack is a treat.

- Lucian K. Truscott IV

OLD GOATS with Jonathan Alter

Ruminating on politics and power.

The Status Kuo

By Jay Kuo

The Status Kuo provides accessible political and legal analysis with a dose of humor. In crazy times, a little clarity goes a long way! Subscribe to receive my email in your inbox. All paid support is voluntary but deeply appreciated

Susie Bright’s Journal

The woman Rolling Stone called “never boring,” Susie comforts the afflicted with legends, politics, intimate bead-reading, and must-read reviews.

Very Serious

By Josh Barro

Josh Barro's newsletter about politics, the economy and culture.

A Scorpio Amongst Scorpions

By Tyler J Anastasia

from a Chicago transplant to the Arizona desert.

Chop Wood, Carry Water

By Jess Craven

This weekday newsletter gives you easy, effective political actions to take to stave off despair, effect positive change and elect more true public servants. It also provides a Sunday good news list to show you all of our wins!

A Civil Rights Power Couple

By Chandra A. Hardy

My maternal grandparents, born in the 1920's, dedicated their lives and careers to civil rights and social justice. This publication covers 534+ years of US history, including Black and women’s history, Pan-Africanism and personal family history.

Still looking for the Joke

By Merrill Markoe

I probably started writing the piece you are about to read because I thought it contained something funny. Fingers crossed I was correct in this assumption.

Andrei Codrescu – Keep the Sabbath With Me

By Andrei Codrescu: Keep the Sabbath With Me

to breathe in a burning house

orzo bimbo

By Julia Harrison

a middle life

The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump

By Mary L Trump

In which we come together to save American democracy, or at least have fun while trying.

Greil Marcus / Letter in the Ether

Everyday culture and found objects

A master in the world of rock and roll and not just because he knows a lot. He understands how it fits together.

- Lucian K. Truscott IV

Ask E. Jean

By E. Jean Carroll

Never let them steal your joy!

The Contrarian

Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy

Seymour Hersh

It's worse than you think

Journal of a Trout Wrangler

By Tom Sadler

Anecdotes and observations about fly-fishing, guiding, politics and life lessons learned.

Almost nothing gets me going more than wading a stream and fishing for trout. This guy knows what he's talking about.

- Lucian K. Truscott IV

PREVAIL by Greg Olear

PREVAIL is a regular column about politics, history, national security, foreign affairs, organized crime, dirty money, global corruption, the fight for democracy—and, on Sundays, poetry and literature.

BY GLENN KESSLER

Author, reporter, former Washington Post Fact Checker -- Making Sense of iIt All.

Dave Barry’s Substack

It's pretty random.

Seeing Things

By Liza Donnelly

New and unpublished drawings and thoughts for people who want to see more of life, from a New Yorker cartoonist. Drawings, cartoons, words, live drawing, process, politics, culture, more...

Charles M. Blow

By Blow the Stack

A newsletter from Journalist Charles M. Blow that covers politics, culture and society. And, it celebrates the joy of writing — and reading — will offering critical, indispensable analysis.

Journal of the Plague Years

By Susan Zakin

Literary, journalistic, irreverent yet oddly serious, Journal of the Plague Years gets the story behind the story.

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Ash Carter

Editor

Robert Reich

Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused

The West Point History Professor

By Terrence Goggin

Former West Point History Professor, Kennedy Fellow, Harvard University, CA Legislator, Attorney.

Heather Delaney Reese

I built a blog that reached millions, now I'm fighting for America's future and survival. I expose MAGA lies and the government's failures, cut through the propaganda, and say what we're all thinking.