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Zeteo is a new media organization that seeks to answer the questions that really matter, while always striving for the truth. Founded by Mehdi Hasan, Zeteo is a movement for media accountability, unfiltered news and bold opinions.

Mehdi Hasan is a gifted interviewer, a dogged researcher and a deeply moral man. I think his new venture is going to be terrific.

- The Beinart Notebook

The Ideas Letter

Welcome to the Ideas Letter, where heterodox ideas come alive. A project of the Open Society Foundations, The Ideas Letter is published fortnightly.

MJ Rosenberg On The Endless Crisis

The terrible Gaza war, watching AIPAC's noxious influence, the election, and random thoughts from a progressive perspective.

State of Siege

By Ahmad Ibsais

"Conflict?" No, its Apartheid. Weekly newsletter focusing on Palestine, the Middle East, and Western colonialism across the world. A politics, news, and culture reading.

Abu Aardvark's MENA Academy

By Marc Lynch

Everything MENA Political Science and Politics

Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s Newsletter

Politics, culture, humor, women, feminism, Jews, Israel-Palestine & more

Forever Wars

By Spencer Ackerman

Tracking the continuities, departures and permutations of the War on Terror.

Spencer Ackerman is one of most talented and courageous national security reporters around. You should read him.

- The Beinart Notebook

Cutting Through

By Mitchell Plitnick

MItchell Plitnick's Analysis and Opinion, Foreign and Domestic

The Bulwark

Analysis and reporting on politics and culture in America. Home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL and more. No partisan loyalties. No tribal prejudices.

Nonzero Newsletter

By Robert Wright

Politics, psychology, and tips on averting the apocalypse.

Foreign Exchanges

By Derek Davison

Daily roundups of world news and thoughtful commentary on US foreign policy.