Resources

Reporting

The Economist The indispensable global news weekly.
The New Yorker The best writing in the English language lives here.
The Wall Street Journal The gold standard for what we used to call journalism.
The Financial Times The Wall Street Journal for the rest of the world.
Real Clear Politics A portal for political writing.
The Washington Post Passed the gray lady as our paper of political record.
TechCrunch Self-absorbed and measures history in minutes — but breaks a lot of tech news.
Technology Review Accessible technology writing from MIT.

Marginal EconomicsTyler Cowan and team host smart debates.
Ann Althouse University of Michigan law professor who seldom gets fooled.
Huffington Post Yes, the left has a tabloid.
Christopher Hitchens Our foremost rhetorical pugilist.
David Brooks The 700 word wonder.
Gary Becker- Richard Posner The power duo of Chicago law and economics.
George Will Last of the intelligent monarchists.
Jim Fallows Sinophile, aerophile, and Fallowphile.
James Surowiecki An economist at the New Yorker — whoda thunk it?
Lawrence Lessig Thoughtful guy on IP law who is oddly drawn to political office.
Malcom Gladwell The academics whose work he monetizes wish they could write like he does.
Megan McArdle First rate next generation economic thinker.
Michael Totten Vagabound war correspondent worth tipping.
Mickey Kaus Unmedicated commentary on cars and politics.
Robert Kuttner A New Dealer, whether it’s in fashion or not.
Robert Reich Can popularize any idea good or bad. And probably has.
Robert Samuelson Sees around a lot of economic corners.
The Onion Yes, you will cry.
Tim O’Reilly Tech publisher and zeitgeist monitor.
Tom Friedman Knows a lot about the Middle East. Writes about everything.
Tom Peters Has more good ideas about organizations each day than most consulting firms do every year.
Victor Davis Hanson Conservative classicist farmer with a better sense of history than humor.
Virginia Postrel Refreshing, iconoclastic, idiosyncratic.