What are some popular left/progressive blogs?

[mrstick]

I have a free weekend, and I want to do some reading

[rockedthevoteinMA]

1. Here's one of my favorites

http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/ - it's more media aimed, but Danny Schechter rocks!

Welcome to DU mrstick! :hi:

[charlie]

2. Try some of these

http://alicublog.blogspot.com/
http://atrios.blogspot.com/
http://www.dailykos.com/
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/ethel/blogger.html
http://jameswolcott.com/
http://www.juancole.com/
http://www.matthewyglesias.com/
http://www.maxspeak.org/mt/
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/
http://www.pandagon.net/
http://www.sideshow.idps.co.uk/
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/
http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/
http://www.thismodernworld.com/
http://billmon.org/

[eg101]

3. those are "Democratic blogs", yes, but not many are not "left/progressive"

Like this one: http://www.dailykos.com --definitely Democratic, but in NO WAY is it Left or Progressive!


Same thing here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com /


Same thing here: http://billmon.org/


I think it is important to seperate out the blogs that deliberately set themselves out to be centrist Democratic and to detail and discuss the minutiae and details of the politics of the Democratic party. That really has nothing to do with progressivism or Leftism....

[charlie]

13. Hmm. Point taken.

However, not knowing mrstick, I wouldn't know if his notion of left/progressive is as stringently defined as yours. All sorts self-identify with both labels (the DLC loves calling themselves "progressives").

I'll add one more I overlooked, Sam Smith's Progressive Review Undernews:

http://prorev.com/indexa.htm

[Hatalles]

4. www.crooksandliars.com

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[avedon]

10. Change of URL for The Sideshow

Thanks for recommending my weblog, Charlie.

Just so you know, I'm at http://sideshow.me.uk now.

AC

[charlie]

12. Aw, rats

Sorry, Avedon. I had your old URL in a text file and new one in my homepage of links, grabbed the wrong one :hi:

[sherilocks]

14. Hi Avedon

We met several decades ago somewhere in the SF world.

[SmokingJacket]

5. www.truthout.org/fyi/

[scarletwoman]

6. By "popular", do you mean large readership?

I believe that http://dailykos.com and http://atrios.blogspot.com/ are certainly two of the biggest. Atrios always has lots of good links to other blogs -- take the time to read the comments there, you'll come across other edifying links therein.

I have alot of personal must-reads; Michael Berube, Steve Gilliard, the Poor Man, James Wolcott, the Rude Pundit, Jesus General, digby.com, Rising Hegemon, Orcinus, Tbogg, billmon.org ...

Try out a few, and click around their blogrolls. There's some truly wonderful thinking and writing going on in the blogosphere, and the information sharing is superb. It's a worthwhile journey.

sw

[rockedthevoteinMA]

7. And Alternet is good - though it's not a blog

http://www.alternet.org/

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Well

Not mine. *sniff sniff*
http://www.livejournal.com/community/thought_express/

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[housewolf]

9. Here are several

Not necessarily Progressive but definitely lefty

http://www.bullmooseblog.com/
http://www.cursor.org
http://www.prospect.org/weblog/
http://www.mydd.com/
http://seetheforest.blogspot.com/
http://corrente.blogspot.com/
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/


This is a good site that tells you what's the latest on a whole bunch of blogs of all denominations
http://www.daoureport.com/


A Libertarian site that I enjoy
http://antiwar.com/

Should keep you busy!

[Lori Price CLG]

11. (Not a blog, but) Citizens For Legitimate Government

CLG
http://www.legitgov.org/