(This page was most recently updated 3 August 2016)

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:

1. 538, statistical analysis of poll results and sporting events;
2. The Monkey Cage, political scientists maintain a group blog at The Washington Post;
3. Politico, news and speculation from the USA’s campaign trail;
4. Real Clear Politics, indispensable aggregator of US campaign news;

Left:

1. Abagond, 1966-style black nationalist;
2. The Angry Arab News Service, “a source on politics, war, the Middle East, Arabic poetry, and art”;
3. The Arabist, what’s going on in places where Arabic is the main language;
4. The Baffler, which doesn’t want you to be a sucker;
5. Box Turtle Bulletin, what happens when members of sexual minorities demand their rights;
6. Carolyn Gage points out that sexual violence does in fact matter in the lives of women and in the structure of society;
7. Center for a Stateless Society, anarchists who say that treason is no crime, but war is;
8. Counterpunch, tells the facts and names the names;
9. Crooks and Liars, tells you that’s what right-wing politicians are, crooks and liars, all of them;
10. Current Affairs, which has “two missions: to produce the world’s first readable political publication and to make life joyful again”;
11. Digby’s Hullabaloo, an outlet for Americans frustrated that the center-left isn’t particularly effective in US politics;
12. Eschaton, the venerable;
13. Evonomics, argues that economics is a field in transition, and that the new economics will be attuned to reality than was the old;
14. the Field Negro, for whom “silence is never golden”;
15. The Intercept, unmasking militarism;
16. Juan Cole, “Informed Comment” on the Middle East and Central Asia;
17. Mondoweiss, mostly about Israel/ Palestine;
18. More Crows Than Eagles, where Anne Amnesia tells the truth about not getting by in America;
19. Naked Capitalism, left-wing economic views;
20. The Nation, premier magazine of the US left;
21. Sadly, No!,  showing that political satire is not necessary when you can just quote American rightists;
22. Secretly Radical, calls for the abolition of gender;
23. Spectre, “as Radical as Reality”;
24. Spocko’s Brain, which is not Morg, and is not Eymorg (or so I would advise youse);
25. Stop Imperialism, “stands in opposition to the forces of empire and finance which seek to dominate the word through both overt and covert means”; 
26. ThinkProgress, popular center-left news aggregator;
27. TomDispatch, “a regular antidote to the mainstream media”;
28. Truthdig, “drilling beneath the headlines”;
29. the Utne blog
30. War is a Crime, say David Swanson and his friends

Right:

1. Acculturated, young right-of-center authors, most of them apparently Roman Catholic, all of them clearly exasperated that Western pop culture is dominated by people who refuse to grow the Hell up;
2. Ace of Spades, where they’ve decided they’re done caring about things so they’re just going to root for Donald Trump;
3. American Affairs, what Trumpism might become if thought through with patience and wisdom
4. The American Conservative‘s blog section;
5. 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;
6. The Beacon, a group blog from the libertarian Independent Institute;
7. The Federalist, center-right web magazine;
8. Front Porch Republic, sets out to build a sane conservatism based on the virtue of “placefulness”;
9. William Norman Grigg’s Pro Libertate, libertarianism with a distinctly African-American inflection;
10. The Imaginative Conservative, “a forum for those who seek the True, the Good, and the Beautiful”;
11. Justin Raimondo, libertarian editor of antiwar.com, inhabits the place where the Old Right meets the New Left;
12. Kathy Shaidle, right-wing Canadian, is Five Feet of Fury;
13. Mapping the Dark Enlightenment, links to the most influential neoreactionary sites;
14. Michael Brendan Dougherty at The Week; 
15. The Mitrailleuse, libertarians all of whom value and most of whom practice religion;
16. The New American, voice of the John Birch Society, a group so conspicuously crazy that it can occasionally get away with being inconspicuously sane;
17. Peter Hitchens is convinced that British voters would rally to support a conservative party, if only the Conservative Party would disband;
18. Public Discourse, right-wing Roman Catholics;
19. Social Matter, which says it is “Not your grandfather’s conservatism,” though some of us had some pretty weird grandfathers…
20. Spiked, hard-edged libertarians with a technophile side;
21. Spotted Toad, wishes the bourgeoisie would stop sowing the seeds of its own destruction;
22. Steve Sailer– I know, I know, but he posts lots of interesting stuff;
23. Street Carnage, from Gavin McInnes and others;
24. Taki’s Magazine, if you’re a bien-pensant sort, you’ll need your smelling salts handy if you take a look at it;
25. Twitchy, a poorly designed homepage, badly thought through politics, brilliantly funny about exactly the forms of left-wing behavior that lefties themselves find exasperating

Center:

1. The Archdruid, who doesn’t see a future in industrial capitalism or the conventional Left that claims to oppose it;
2. Brian Barder, a retired diplomat who may well be the most polite blogger on the web;
3. Club Orlov, where “collapsitarian” Dmitry Orlov explains why the modern world is doomed and wonders why the very people who are doing the most to hasten its collapse are the ones who are least willing to admit that their efforts are bearing fruit;
4. Clusterfuck Nation, by James Howard Kunstler;
5. Crooked Timber, by authors who may all be of similar political persuasions, but whose academic research leads them in surprising directions;
6. Damon Linker of The Week;
7. Duck of Minerva, “world politics from an academic perspective,” and sometimes academic politics from a global perspective;
8. Ernest F. Hollings, Acilius’ favorite former US Senator (formerly his favorite US Senator);
9. Fredrik deBoer, wants a “Left that can win,” which means he’s a persistent critic of the Left we seem to be stuck with;
10. Head of Legal, the UK’s Carl Gardner tells us what the law says about various controversies of the day;
11. Heterodox Academy, argues that American academics have become so uniform in their political views that the prevailing ideology is now a severe impediment to their intellectual lives;
12. Language Log‘s section on “Language and Politics“;
13. LobeLog, “investigative journalism and critical expert perspectives on US foreign policy, especially regarding Iran and the greater Middle East”;
14. Pat Lang, a retired colonel who knows a lot of stuff;
15. The Saker, who declares that “Russia Stands for Freedom!,” which I suppose is why he lives in Iceland;
16. Slate Star Codex, skeptical about the power of reason in human affairs;
17. Stumbling and Mumbling, in which Chris Dillow claims to be “an extremist, not a fanatic”;
18. The Volokh Conspiracy, a project begun by right-wing legal scholars, has moved to the Washington Post and lost some of that focus

Democrats and Republicans:

1. David Stockman‘s Contra Corner;
2. Echidne of the Snakes, diehard Obama loyalist with a formidable blogroll;
3. The Huffington Post, founded by someone who named her cat “Puffington Huffington” and made a vast fortune off people’s willingness to give her content for free; 
4. Kevin Drum, who beats steadily for the Dems;
5. Michael Barone, Republican political analyst;
6. Mickey Kaus, who dislikes unions because they drive up wages, and dislikes immigration because it drives down wages;
7. Pollways, political scientist Amy Fried analyzes opinion trends in and out of the state of Maine ;
8. Vox‘s “Policy and Politics” section;
9. The Weekly Standard‘s Daily Standard;
10. Wonkette, politics for people with dirty minds