The News Café

Stories of interest

It's worse than you think

Braiding the sweetgrass of Politics, Science, Art, and spirituality. Drawing our circles wider; creating new ground on which to stand together, through radical engagement and active listening.

A place for dissenting Russian voices.

Orient to the currents that are shaping our times and the unseen forces driving politics that are rarely discussed on cable news

Worried about the state of the republic? Get the legal knowledge & analysis you need to be an advocate for democracy, along with a dose of savvy optimism.

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

Studying utopia + writing about a better future through essays and fiction.

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

Weekly essays on reading the world and reading in the world, plus personalized book recommendations based on the last five books you've read.

Nothing but history's most interesting letters.

Economics and other interesting stuff

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.