# What are your favorite political links?

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**Created:** [March 27, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-political-links/100403 "2002-03-27T17:26:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ace_of_Swords)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-political-links/100403/1 "2002-03-27T17:26:51Z")

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What are your favorite political links?

Are there any political commentators who you recommend that are below the radar screen? I bet the collective consciousness of the SDMB has a few gems!

Here’s who I find insightful:

[Joshua Micah-Marshall](http://www.j-marshall.com/)  
Bull Moose [http://conservativereform.org/bullmoose/](http://conservativereform.org/bullmoose/)  
Molly Ivins [http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/ivins/](http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/ivins/)  
And Arianna Huffington, Andrew Conason, and Paul Krugman  
Working for Change is consistently funny and perspicacious [http://www.workingforchange.com/index.cfm](http://www.workingforchange.com/index.cfm)  
I rubberneck Sullivans weblog for his latest carnage of a posting [www.andrewsullivan.com](http://www.andrewsullivan.com)  
Roll Calls “Heard on the Hill” [http://www.rollcall.com/pages/columns/hoh/](http://www.rollcall.com/pages/columns/hoh/)

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[The Top Ten Conservative Idiots](http://democraticunderground.com/top10/index.html)

Courtesy of the Democratic Underground

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In descending order of preference:

[National Review Online](http://www.nationalreview.com)

[Instapundit](http://instapundit.blogspot.com/)

[WSJ Opinion Journal](http://www.opinionjournal.com/) (the “Best of the Web Today” email is especially good)

[Smarter Times](http://www.smartertimes.com)

The aforementioned Andrew Sullivan

[The Weekly Standard](http://www.weeklystandard.com)

And as for pundits…this isn’t really “below the radar,” but Jonah Goldberg’s column on NRO is worth it for the Star Trek and Simpsons references alone…

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**Author:** ![Jenner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@Jenner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenner)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-political-links/100403/4 "2002-03-28T04:10:04Z")

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Well, I feel a bit guilty for not responding to the “leftist dopers” thread, so here’s my contribution:

AlterNet: [http://www.alternet.org/](http://www.alternet.org/)  
Collection of articles and commentary from the left

MotherJones: [http://www.motherjones.com/](http://www.motherjones.com/)  
Progressive magazine

Salon: [http://www.salon.com/](http://www.salon.com/)  
The best e-zine on the web (mostly political, somewhat leftist)

The Nation: [http://www.thenation.com/](http://www.thenation.com/)  
Oldest and most respected progressive magazine in the U.S.

[TomPaine.com](http://TomPaine.com): [http://www.tompaine.com/](http://www.tompaine.com/)  
Progressive journal

WebActive: [http://www.webactive.com/webactive/body.html](http://www.webactive.com/webactive/body.html)  
Radio commentary from the left, sponsered by RealNetworks, Inc.

WorkingForChange: [http://www.workingforchange.com/](http://www.workingforchange.com/)  
Leftist commentary site sponsered by Working Assets (phone company)

ZNet: [http://www.zmag.org/](http://www.zmag.org/)  
Interesting stuff