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Chipping away at the inscrutability of modern life, popular culture, and how we feel about both. Maybe Baby is one of the leading culture newsletters on Substack. This newsletter is an attempt by Haley Nahman to understand the confusing yet exciting world around her, learning about modern life (and how to survive it) along the way. The author hopes to inspire people and offer a unique approach to life by sharing her personal stories and cultural critiques especially aiming at self-delusion, cognitive bias, mass media, and how our lives are affected by all three. Subscribe to Maybe Baby for weekly essays, recommendations, podcasts, and monthly advice where the author takes in 3 questions from readers and gives her detailed answers.

figuring out how to be and raise ethical, joyful humans in beautiful, horrible times. The examined family is an honest, personal newsletter that encourages you to reflect on your life and to rethink and reassess what it means to live a good one. Courtney Martin reckons how the world has changed, shares the daily struggles of living in quarantine, and offers a Sunday Times Snapshot of “5 things worth noting from today’s New York Times”. The examined family is a mixture of essays, Q&As with activists from different fields and has an engaged community of like-minded, wise people.

Musings from a standup comedian and startup veteran The Rubesletter is a weekly newsletter where NYC comedian, writer, and filmmaker Matt Ruby shares his takes on different events happening around the crazy world we live in. Navigating through life in 2022 after everything we’ve been through feels like walking on a tightrope…without a balancing stick. In this newsletter, the author aims to share his perspective on things like tech, politics, society, and life and offer no BS advice to people who wish to see things from a different angle. You’ll find fun reads for everything ranging from learning how technology works, creative stand-up advice, and rants about the woke left Subscribe to the Rubesletter to get a different perspective on life, an interesting take on recent events, and relevant advice straight to your inbox every week.  

Regular news and features by award-winning author and investigative reporter. Honest and impactful, TK News by Matt Taibbi, is full of complex topics and confusing news, written in a clear, digestible manner. Dive deep into the transformation of the American press, analysis on the Russiagate, and all the nuances on today’s Left and Right. The newsletter hosts presidential campaign reporting, regular news, and creative writing with an added bonus of access to Matt Taibbi’s books - Hate Inc. and The Business Secrets of Drug-Dealing.

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics. Letters from an American is a historian’s perspective of today’s political landscape. Heather Cox Richardson highlights what is important out of the day’s news, eliminating the noise around it. The author gives context to today’s politics by placing everything into the big picture of American history. Letters from an American are considered to be both informative and hopeful. You can expect facts and details, together with the provided sources at the end of every post and original perspectives from the author. Subscribe to the voice of reason and explore “what it means and what it has meant, to be an American.”

Writing worth reading. The Browser is a daily newsletter that hosts five recommended articles, a podcast, and a video. Every day Robert Cotrell goes through a thousand articles and recommends five things worthy of your attention. The Browser is focused on writing with a lasting value and prioritized on best rather than the latest. The editors always provide their own original description with an explanation of why they believe this is a good piece of writing and why it is worth reading. Subscribe so you can “always have something to read on the train and interesting things to say at dinner.”

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration. A newsletter from the desk of Austin Kleon is not your ordinary curation. Being a writer who draws, the author sparks your curiosity by visually narrating different tips and tricks. Think of a technique on how to make a map of your mind or exercises to help you feel thankful. In addition to his creative bursts, you will get a list of ‘10 things worth sharing’. You can expect links to articles on how a book is made, music recommendations, original reviews of moby dick and so much more art-related things.  Want to engage with your creative side? Subscribe to Austin Kleon’s newsletter and get inspired. 

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle". Previously a blog called Dish has made a comeback as a political newsletter - The Weekly Dish. Andrew Sullivan is pretty sure he will piss you off, but he believes it will encourage you to reevaluate ideas. The newsletter explores issues on race and gender, debates the Critical race theory and wokeness, and discusses the impact of social media and the meaning of liberal democracy. The Weekly Dish has multiple parts in it - the main column, dissent section where he engages, reacts, and argues with his readers, recommended newsletter list, and a Mental Health Break where the author shares a relevant video. Get all of this and much more by subscribing to The Weekly Dish.

A newsletter about science, social-justice-activism, why they sometimes fight, and how to help them get along better. Jesse Singal writes about the cultural divide, debates political correctness, and dives deep when trying to unpack questionable articles or social science papers. Singal-Minded is a newsletter that brings light to issues like Twitter’s culture wars, battles over linguistics, and super-wokeness. Subscribe for all things culture, current-events-rants, book giveaways, and “many, many dumb jokes”.

A newsletter about having fun online. Garbage Day is an award-winning (it got the Webby!) newsletter about what’s going on on the web. Ryan writes about social networks, modern media outlets, and all the insane stuff you can find on the internet. He believes that the web should be more open and that everyone should have fun there. And that’s what The Garbage Day is all about - a lot of honest takes on the latest news of the internets’ wildest corners. Think of topics like The British Army's Twitter, TikTok’s Witch Hunt, and a DAO which is trying to buy the constitution and you'll get the idea of what kind of tweets, videos, memes, and interesting reads you'll get every week. There is a special deep dive column written by guest writer Allegra Rosenberg called ‘Allegra’s corner’. If the title 'Amish Bitch' intrigues you - explore the archives for more! Subscribe to Garbage Day and dive into the best internet ‘trash’. 🗑️