Substacks recommended by Merrill Goozner

Recommended by Merrill Goozner

The Beinart Notebook

By Peter Beinart

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

Managed Care Matters

By Joe Paduda

What's happening in healthcare and workers comp & what it means for you

Charles Gaba

Healthcare policy, data analysis & snark.

Throughline by Jill Filipovic

Connecting the dots. Politics, culture, women’s rights, foreign affairs, law, and more.

Indispensable for following issues of importance to women.

- Merrill Goozner

Robert Reich

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

Never short on informed opinion.

- Merrill Goozner

Lucid

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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

Drop Site News

Independent news on politics and war

Insider reporting from a progressive point of view.

- 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

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

Paul Krugman

Notes on economics and more

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

- 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

The Washington Monthly

Bold ideas. Honest journalism. Smart analysis. Our mission: champion democracy, support good governance and promote American opportunity for all.

Generating great public policy ideas for over 50 years.

- Merrill Goozner

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

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."