Substacks recommended by Merrill Goozner

Recommended by Merrill Goozner

The Washington Monthly

The Washington Monthly offers smart analysis and big ideas for rebuilding American democracy and opportunity.

Generating great public policy ideas for over 50 years.

- Merrill Goozner

The Beinart Notebook

By Peter Beinart

A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Your Local Epidemiologist

By Katelyn Jetelina

Providing a direct line of "translated" public health science to you, so you can take action for your community's health

Ryan Grim

A politics newsletter, written by Ryan Grim, reporter and editor at Drop Site, co-host of Counter Points and Deconstructed, and author of the books "The Squad," "We've Got People," and "This Is Your Country On Drugs."

Paul Krugman

Notes on economics and more

Smart, prolific, progressive. My go-to source for economic punditry.

- Merrill Goozner

Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Substack

Continuing the tradition of my old HealthNewsReview site - still helping people improve critical thinking about health care.

A must read for every health care journalist.

- Merrill Goozner

Robert Reich

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

Never short on informed opinion.

- Merrill Goozner

Dirt Diggers Digest

By Philip Mattera

corporate misconduct and how to research it

Each week, Philip Mattera mines Good Jobs First's Violation Tracker for corporate malfeasance.

- Merrill Goozner

Lucid

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat

A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world

RetirementRevised

By Retirementrevised.com

Get the latest news and trends on retirement and aging. I focus mostly on personal finance, retirement planning, Social Security and Medicare and health.

There's no better guide through the maze of options seniors deal with in Medicare and Social Security.

- Merrill Goozner