who and what do you read for political and cultural analysis

[cali]

and news? I'm always looking for more.

Here are my indispensables:

Lewis Lapham, editor emeritus of Harpers and now editor of Lapham's Quarterly. Love, love, love Lewis. The Quarterly bills itself as a magazine of history and ideas. The fall issue is on death. Not really news but lots of connections.
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/

I still read Harpers. I like Garret Keizer's musings. Love the Index.

Amy Davidson and John Cassidy in the New Yorker are must reads for me. Here's a fantastic piece by the latter on Cruz

From Dr. Seuss to the Bataan Death March: Ted Cruz Does His Stuff

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/09/from-dr-seuss-to-the-bataan-death-march-ted-cruz-does-his-stuff.html#entry-more

Conor Friedersdorf in the Atlantic. Also James Fallows and Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Nation

Mother Jones

Charles Pierce of course- in Esquire

Who do you read?

[gopiscrap]

1. Manchester Guardian, Frankufter Allegemeine Zeitung, USA Today, NYT,

Democratic Underground and the Tacoma News Tribune

[underpants]

2. DU (obviously), McClatchy, Rolling Stone, google news....

and I do tune into RW talk radio mostly to see the germs of their BIG LIES (it takes about 2 weeks)

[Fumesucker]

3. All of them

Basically I read DU and a few other relatively high quality sites and follow links to stories/articles/pieces I find interesting, I recognize some names, Taibbi, Pierce, our man from Trantor and so on but I don't follow any particular people.

[jberryhill]

10. Sarah, is that you?

[Fumesucker]

13. Thanks for explaining my little jest to the barefoot pilgrims

[Prophet 451]

4. A few

The Nation, Mother Jones and a few blogs (Maddow, for example).

[arely staircase]

5. I read all those, cali

Plus krugman. On the right I read various non crazies George Will and others.I also read a good bit of Mexican publications like la jornada. Oh also TPM edited again to say vanity fair when I can dig through the adverts for shit I will never be ablev to bu

[SamKnause]

6. What do I read ?

Rolling Stone
The Guardian
Mother Jones
Numerous articles posted at Democratic Underground
Numerous articles posted at the Huffington Post
Numerous articles from sources around the globe

I read articles written by;

Amy Goodman
Juan Gonzalez
Matt Tahibi
John Pilger
Glenn Greenwald
Robert Greenwald
Noam Chomsky
Greg Palast
Matt Taibbi
Naomi Klein
Naomi Wolf
Robert Reich
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Cornel West
(Late) Howard Zinn
(Late) Michael Hastings
Richard Wolff
Alan Grayson
Bernie Sanders
Elizabeth Warren
Chris Hedges
Jeremy Scahill

[cali]

15. oooh, thanks for that list!

[SamKnause]

18. Reply

You are most welcome.

[WilliamPitt]

7. Charlie Pierce, TPM, Mojo, the Nation, Taegan Goddard, gad zooks...

...the list is long.

P.S. DU.

[Link Speed]

8. "All of 'em."

Or something like that...

I heard some woman saying that on the teevee.

[grasswire]

9. My opinion of you spiked, Cali...

....when I saw Lewis Lapham as your first cite.

Lewis Lapham, my hero. The best argument of all for an education.

[cali]

16. back at you. Have you read the quarterly? Really great stuff.

[grasswire]

17. yes

I always learn from Lapham.

[grasswire]

11. How about The Progressive?

And In These Times?

I don't see anyone mentioning them in this thread.

[jberryhill]

12. Um, all of 'em, any of 'em that, um, have, have been in front of me over all these years

I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media. I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news too

[madrchsod]

14. at least 30 facebook pages that are progressive or democratic sites.

several are members of du and many of my friends who are democrats across the country post news from their states.
i have a bookmark list of progressive news websites/facebook pages and union and state facebook pages

it`s nice to be retired with a lot of time on my hands