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Recommended by Michael Goldfarb

I've been around a while, so this is where I try to distil my 50+ years as a reporter into something that might help you make sense of this crazy world.

You want experience + rational analysis of current events? Robin's yer man

- Michael Goldfarb

Elizabeth’s Substack

By Elizabeth Becker

My personal Substack

Elizabeth Becker is the author of one of the best books about the personal price of covering wars: You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War -- something she knows about as she began her career covering Cambodia in the 1970s. Her substack columns are always incisive.

- Michael Goldfarb

Between The Hashmarks

By Matt Lombardo

The very latest NFL news, analysis, and insight from sources across the league that you can't get anywhere else.

Because I'm an NFL fan. Don't judge me

- Michael Goldfarb

Mike Tanier's Too Deep Zone

NFL Coverage for Poets, Drunkards and Dreamers

Mike is probably the sharpest and funniest sportswriter in America. If the NYTimes hadn't been stupid enough to let him go he'd have won the Pulitzer Prize by now.

- Michael Goldfarb

Municipal Dreams

The history of council housing

This history of public housing in Britain is a consistently fascinating and extremely well-written newsletter. Highly recommend

- Michael Goldfarb

Project Taliban

By Lynne O'Donnell's Newsletter

All you need to know about guns, drugs, money & jihad

Lynne knows as much about what is happening in Afghanistan as any reporter -- and she has a very clear pov about the Talibs and what they are up to

- Michael Goldfarb

History of a Calamity

By Michael Goldfarb

America and Its March To Trump and Beyond