Recommended Media

Diversify your media sources and free yourself from corporate-approved content with these recommendations from the Peninsula DSA Steering Committee.

Leftist & Progressive News

  • Breakthrough News - 501(c)3 nonprofit news organization that tells untold stories of resistance from poor and working-class communities
  • Cosmonaut Mag - a Marxist magazine for revolutionary strategy
  • Defector - an employee-owned sports and culture website
  • Democracy Now - daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González
  • Drop Site - independent news on politics and war, founded by Ryan Grim, Jeremy Scahill, and veterans of The Intercept
  • Electronic Intifada - an independent online news publication focusing on Palestine
  • Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) - national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation
  • First Thought - “Biased news”
  • The Intercept - “We investigate powerful individuals and institutions to expose corruption and injustice”
  • In These Times - independent nonprofit magazine dedicated to “advancing democracy and economic justice, informing movements for a more humane world, and providing an accessible forum for debate about the policies that shape our future”
  • Jacobin - “Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.”
  • Jewish Currents - award-winning magazine of politics, culture, and ideas
  • Majority Report - daily political talk show with Sam Seder
  • Monthly Review - an independent socialist magazine
  • The Nation - independent US journalism and investigative reporting
  • Novara Media - independent UK media organisation addressing the issues that are set to define the 21st century, from a crisis of capitalism to racism and climate change
  • Owen Jones - independent channel with man-on-the-street interviews
  • The Real News Network - nonprofit media organization that “makes media connecting you to the movements, people, and perspectives that are advancing the cause of a more just, equal, and livable planet”

Podcasts

  • 5-4 Podcast - “5-4 is a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks”
  • ALAB Series - All Lawyers are Bastards, “an infrequent podcast series about the American legal system”
  • Blowback - Co-hosts Brendan James and Noah Kulwin examine decades of US imperialism: the Iraq War (season 1), the Cuban Revolution (season 2), the Korean War (season 3), the invasion of Afghanistan (season 4), and Indochina (season 5).
  • Chapo Trap House - an American socialist political comedy podcast
  • Citations Needed - a podcast about the intersection of media, PR, and power, hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.
  • Death Panel - “Politics, culture, and public policy from the left. Medicare for All now. Solidarity forever. Stay alive another week.”
  • The Deprogram - “The only truly international, global, and anti-capitalist podcast you’ll find”
  • The Dig - Daniel Denvir’s Jacobin podcast on politics, history, and economics everywhere
  • Guerilla History - “a reconnaissance report of global history for the activist left, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present”
  • Left on Red - “a Gen-X mom and gay millennial do socialism”
  • Leftist Reading
  • Mic Dicta Podcast - “America’s Best Named Legal Podcast”
  • Reading Capital With Comrades
  • The Real News Podcast
  • Red Menace - “explains and analyzes revolutionary theory and then applies its lessons to our contemporary conditions”
  • The Red Nation Podcast - “Until Decolonization, Liberation, and Landback”
  • Revolutionary Left Radio - “explores political philosophy, history, science, religion, culture, art, and struggle through a socialist lens”
  • Tech Won’t Save Us - “Silicon Valley promised us progress. That’s not what it delivered.”
  • This Machine Kills - “agitprop against innovation and capital”
  • TrueAnon - “a podcast about your enemies made by your friends”

Media Criticism

  • A More Civilized Age - “Dive headfirst into the fall of the Galactic Republic, debate which Jedi is messiest, and dig into the themes and politics of The Clone Wars”
  • Abnormal Mapping’s The Great Gundam Project - “full summaries of every episode as we go deeper and deeper into expanded class consciousness”
  • Game Studies Study Buddies - “academic games studies available for audiences outside of academia, text by text”
  • If Books Could Kill - “The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds”
  • Just King Things - “monthly podcast about reading the books of Stephen King in publication order”
  • Maintenance Phase - “Wellness and weight loss, debunked and decoded”
  • Remap Radio - a weekly video game news and discussion podcast
  • Shut Up & Sit Down - “The world’s best board game review show”
  • You’re Wrong About - “Mike and Sarah are journalists obsessed with the past. Every week they reconsider an event, person or phenomenon that’s been miscast in the public imagination.”

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