Chop Wood, Carry Water

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Politics, Law, Analysis, and Opinions. In crazy times, a little clarity goes a long way. Subscribe to get my email sent each weekday to your inbox!

Good perspective on the week's news from a legal perspective. Very readable, and I always learn something.

- Jessica Craven

Popular Information

By Judd Legum

Independent accountability journalism.

If you want to help hold bad corporations accountable, and find out who's funding the awful politicians we're fighting, you need to subscribe.

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Abortion, Every Day by Jessica Valenti

All things abortion. Feminist commentary & community.

An absolute must-read if abortion is an issue that matters to you. Indispensable.

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News not Noise

By Ingo Hoffmann

Insights into the world of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation and Innovation

This is a great twice-weekly news digest that includes good info on Ukraine. The author has recently added a weekly "News That Doesn't Suck" edition that's wonderful.

- Jessica Craven

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

You can't be interested in politics and not follow historian Heather Cox Richardson's work. Mighty, uplifting, contextualizing, informative.

- Jessica Craven

The Unpublishable

By Jessica DeFino

What the beauty industry won't tell you, from a reporter on a mission to reform it.

I am absolutely OBSESSED with this newsletter, written by a former publicist for the Kardashians' cosmetic line. It's about misogyny, white supremacy, capitalism, and how all of that comes to us through our beauty standards and the "beauty industrial complex" that's grown up around them.

- Jessica Craven

The Message Box

By Dan Pfeiffer

A newsletter about political and message strategy

Today's Edition Newsletter

By Robert Hubbell

A reflection on today's news through the lens of hope.

Again, if you care about politics and need a daily explainer/pep talk from a smart lawyer who started this newsletter to comport his grown daughters after Trump was elected, you should subscribe. I consider it a daily must-read.

- Jessica Craven

Terrible Swift Sword

By Jim Ryan

A plea and a playbook for progressives to reclaim our power, dominate political discourse and crush the serpent with our heel.