Substacks recommended by Dan Perry

Recommended by Dan Perry

Former congressional staffer/campaign manager; writer for Newsweek, Washington Monthly, Raw Story; host of Beyond Politics podcast; dad, husband, coach; follow at @mattLRobison

Blue Amp

By Cliff Schecter

Cliff Schecter & David Shuster didn't just discover the GOP's evil, find our voices, switch sides. We've been at this 25 years. Cliff wrote ads that helped Pres Biden beat Trump in '20. David exposed GOP corruption as an Emmy-winning anchor at MSNBC & CNN

The Teen Index

By Rozanna

17-year-old nerd building bridges between macro trends and microchips. I talk about economics and tech like my life depends on it. I speak English, Arabic, French, and Japanese, and currently debugging German. Expect charts, code, and occasional chaos!

Venture Humanist

By Koshu Kunii

A weekly newsletter on venture investing and philosophy.

Auraist: picking the best-written books

By Sean

Trusted by 50K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK recent releases and prize shortlists, and publish in-depth articles by their authors on prose style. Plus the satirical series The Demon Inside David Lynch.

How Things Work

By Hamilton Nolan

Labor, politics, and power.

Unsorted but Significant

By Ted Anthony

Exploring the unnoticed building blocks of life. History, culture, family, memory, grief and other journeys.

Andelman Unleashed

By David A. Andelman

Yesterday Today & Tomorrow

A real newsman with a globalist POV - with a sharp pen and eagle eye. An antidote to the Age of Nonsense.

- Dan Perry

Project Taliban

By Lynne O'Donnell's Newsletter

All you need to know about guns, drugs, money & jihad

This is absolutely the Substack of record for all things Afghanistan - a country whose tragic history has had outsize impact on the world. Lynne O'Donnell was the AP bureau chief in Kabul when I was the regional editor, and few know more about this subject.

- Dan Perry

Thinking about...

By Timothy Snyder

Opening the future by understanding the past.

Tel Aviv Diary

By Marc Schulman

A Daily view of Israel as seen from inside the Tel Aviv bubble six days a week during the war

Chris Riback's Newsletter

What you need to know: Today’s most compelling ideas, trends & news

Chris Riback is simply a machine of knowledge, intelligence, erudition, humor and hard work that he makes appear effortless. His newsletter is a very efficient way to get a handle on the world.

- Dan Perry

The Cosmopolitan Globalist

By Claire Berlinski

Edited by essayist Claire Berlinski, this is Substack's top forum for the discussion of international news among readers and writers, around the world, who are concerned about the future of liberal democracy and the gathering storm of global war.

Ask Questions Later

Recommended by Dan Perry