(This page was most recently updated 4 May 2012)

Feel free to use the comments to suggest other sites we should link on this page, especially to lighten the heavy predominance of USA-focused sites.

Political science and campaign news: David Weigel of Slate magazine; The Monkey Cage, introducing political science research and the styles of thinking that it engenders to the general reader; 538, “Politics Done Right”; Wonkette, politics for people with dirty minds; Pollways, political scientist Amy Fried analyzes opinion trends in and out of the state of Maine ; Polls and Votes, “polls in perspective”; A Plain Blog About Politics, political scientist Jonathan Bernstein on US national elections; You Study Politics, Right?, if you’re political scientist Matt Dickenson, you do

Left: Abagond, 1966-style black nationalist; Alyssa Rosenberg, culture and society; The Angry Arab News Service, “a source on politics, war, the Middle East, Arabic poetry, and art”; Box Turtle Bulletin, what happens when members of sexual minorities demand their rights; Digby’s Hullabaloo, an outlet for Americans frustrated that the center-left isn’t particularly effective in US politics; Feministing; the Field Negro, for whom “silence is never golden”; Glenn Greenwald of Salon magazine; Juan Cole, “Informed Comment” on the Middle East and Central Asia; Katha Pollitt of The Nation magazine; Mondoweiss, mostly about Israel/ Palestine; Naked Capitalism, left-wing economic views; Racialicious, “the intersection of race and pop culture”;  Sadly, No!,  showing that political satire is not necessary when you can just quote American rightists; Tenured Radical, who takes pains to ensure that everyone recognizes the title of her first-rate blog as a reference to a second-rate book; TomDispatch, “a regular antidote to the mainstream media”; Truthdig, “drilling beneath the headlines”; the Utne blog

Right: Anti-Gnostic, who is at least as fiercely reactionary in his opinions on politics, religion, and economics as was his hero, philosopher Eric Voegelin, but is much more readable than Voegelin ever was; Foseti, self-described reactionary; The Imaginative Conservative, “a forum for those who seek the True, the Good, and the Beautiful”; Justin Raimondo, libertarian editor of antiwar.com, inhabits the place where the Old Right meets the New Left; Peter Hitchens is convinced that British voters would rally to support a conservative party, if only the Conservative Party would disband; Secular Right, proving you don’t have to be religious to be right-wing; Steve Sailer- I know, I know, but he posts lots of interesting stuff; Thomas Fleming explains US politics to UK readers; The Volokh Conspiracy, right-wing legal scholars; Will Wilkinson, for low-tax liberalism (he also maintains The Moral Sciences Club)

Center: Brian Barder, a retired diplomat who may well be the most polite blogger on the web;  Crooked Timber, by authors who may all be of similar political persuasions, but whose academic research leads them in surprising directions; Language Log’s section on “Language and Politics“;  Pat Lang, a retired colonel who knows a lot of stuff

Democrats and Republicans: Bruce Bartlett, Republican economist; Echidne of the Snakes, notable for many things, including a formidable blogroll; Ernest F. Hollings, Acilius’ favorite former US Senator; Kevin Drum, who beats steadily for the Dems;  Matt Yglesias, who likes the Democrats; Michael Barone, Republican political analyst; Mickey Kaus, who dislikes unions because they drive up wages, and dislikes immigration because it drives down wages; Roger Ebert, celebrated film critic who is sensitive to the political side of movies and the cinematic side of politics; Secular Square, irreligious rightist;  Stanley Fish, academic eminence and canny observer of public affairs; View from the Right, by Lawrence Auster; The Weekly Standard‘s Daily Standard