Substacks recommended by Magic + Loss

Recommended by Magic + Loss

The politics of youth in America, a journal by and for young people

Insights + lifestyle shifts for Highly Sensitive People delivered by a Marriage and Family Therapist to level up health, beauty, mental health, relationships, spirituality, + non-toxic living. Alchemize pain into power. Make your life a little bit better.

Great content on gender, health, and—this part's indispensable—narcissistic political abuse.

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The Jim Acosta Show

By Jim Acosta

Don't give in to the lies. Hold on to the truth!

How to Survive the Broligarchy

By Carole Cadwalladr

Girl power vs Tech bros

Craig Unger

Craig's six books on the GOP's assault on democracy include NYT bestsellers American Kompromat; House of Bush, House of Saud, and House of Trump, House of Putin. He has written for Vanity Fair, New York, Esquire, the New Yorker, etc.

Ben Samuels

Moon Notes with Heidi Rose Robbins

Moon Notes are daily missives, using the tools of astrology and poetry, encouraging our most authentic, radiant selves!

These Violent Delights

By Tom Shone

Tom Shone's Substack

Tom should not be missed

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After Class with Cadence

By Cadence Dubus

a newsletter and podcast about our bodies and how to live in them from an all bodies inclusive feminist perspective. sometimes funny, hopefully always useful.

Feminist f*tness

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Rick Wilson’s Intel and Observations

Tireless resistance to autocracy.

Smart aleck, also just smart.

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Fritinancy

By Nancy Friedman

Names, brands, writing, and the language of commerce, plus occasional tangents.

Wit and principle

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Peter Trachtenberg: Not Dark Yet

Writing about literature, music, politics, ethics, history, and the end of the world. In no particular order.

Apocalypse and beauty, the only topics.

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The Golden Hour: climate, children, mental health

By Anya Kamenetz

The Golden Hour is a newsletter about thriving and caring for others on a rapidly-changing planet.

Meeting the polycrisis with clarity, courage, and moral imagination.

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The New Republic

Ideas. Influence. Impact. TNR is a leader in the continuing fight for American democracy and a must-read if you want to know the ideas impacting politics and culture today.

Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast

By Andrew Leahey 🦣

The idea is that this podcast and newsletter can accompany you on your commute home and will render you minimally competent on the major legal news stories of the day. That's the idea - execution is another matter entirely.

Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert

This is heart work

Always a gem.

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Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg

Expert commentary from a 30-year veteran of US politics. Here at Hopium we work on strategies to defeat MAGA, tell our story more effectively, and ensure freedom and democracy prevail. Expect sharp analysis, live events, and all sorts of Hopium!

The Virtual Memories Show News

By Gil Roth

Promoting & preserving art & culture, one conversation at a time

Saving seriousness

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DemocraTorah

By Avraham Bronstein

In the words of Senator Raphael Warnock, democracy is the "political enactment of a religious idea."

Politics and prophecy from my favorite rabbi.

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Everything Is A Wave

By Amanda Guinzburg

Words & Pictures. Shadows & Light.

Soul deliverance in a newsletter.

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Inter-Era

By Anna Gát ✨

Vicky Ward Investigates

Investigative Journalist focused on the players in politics, finance, culture, the world.

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.

Iconic.

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Retro

By Seth Abramson

A celebration of music, TV, film, art, video games, books, digital culture, comics, toys, and other pop-culture joys from throughout U.S. history.

Culture by a favorite.

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Arts & Letters Daily

The best literary and arts writing on the internet

Indispensable.

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Robert Reich

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

Foolproof reading.

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Mess & Noise

By Phoebe Assenza

Clocking business, culture, and the world of work, with sandwich breaks.

Gorgeous, chaotic.

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Radical Reports

By Teddy Wilson

Research, Analysis, and Intelligence on the Radical Right.

Know the enemy.

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The Intrinsic Perspective

By Erik Hoel

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

CultureWag

By JD Heyman

Culture: High, Middle, and Deliciously Low!

Ask E. Jean

By E. Jean Carroll

For 27 years at ELLE magazine I answered sticky questions. NOW, I'm asking the questions, and YOU---you brilliant person---are solving the world's problems by answering them!

The Snap Forward

By Alex Steffen

You no longer have a choice about whether you live on a planet in crisis. What you CAN choose is how successfully you do it. Big-picture knowledge, practical solutions and personal climate strategies from acclaimed climate expert Alex Steffen.

Ruggedize, young man.

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Lucid

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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

Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Diagnosing a world in crisis while finding means and strategies for a better, realer, more human future.

Paul Krugman

Notes on economics and more

How Not to F*ck Up Your Face

By Val Monroe

philosophical and practical advice for anyone who's ever looked into a mirror

Chills, by Lauren Wolfe

Fearless reporting, a behind-the-curtains look at how journalism is made — and an unabashed point of view. Welcome to Chills.

Machine Society

By Mike Elgan

Cyberpunk non-fiction

BAD AT KEEPING SECRETS

By Carissa Potter

emotional messes & intimate conversations

The full catastrophe, my favorite.

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Chartbook

By Adam Tooze

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

Tooze and tooze.

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The LZ Sunday Paper

By Lauren Zalaznick

The most important news about, by, and (mostly) for women, hand-curated by me, for you, every week.

The Bulwark

The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, 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.

The Department of Salad: Official Bulletin

By Emily Nunn

Step into our salad laboratory. We got your leafy greens, your grains, your veg, and protein. Plus: salady guests, salady books & recipes, recipes, recipes 🥗

The.Ink

By The Ink

A newsletter on politics and culture, money and power -- telling the truth without fear -- from Anand Giridharadas

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Charlotte's Web Thoughts

By Charlotte Clymer

Politics, religion, culture, and humor from a Christian trans woman. 2024 NLGJA Award for Excellence in Blogging. 2024 EPPY Award for Best Political/News Blog. 2023 & 2024 GLAAD Media Award Finalist for Outstanding Blog.

Too brilliant. Always surprising, always what I need.

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