For Rebekah. Cont. from...
Sources III is a stupid. We're gonna subtitle this one, back to basics, a.k.a. back to news... (a.k.a. is fyi one of my favorite acronyms. Exampli gratia, e.g. is as well. It's beautiful, it rolls of the tongue. I hate though id est, what's the deal with that? It sounds horrible and i.e. just looks pretentious, particularly when people use it incorrectly. No?).
ABC Religion & Ethics - This one is so new, that it wasn't even an option when I first posted on sources. Huff pointed me to the post where he first found out about it. The site is SOF meets CNN. It's a multimedia conglomeration focused on faith-related topics. Their start-up post. Of the theologians and experts they've amassed, some are quite good. Just to remind you, that's Australian Broadcast Company, not our ABC. Their RSS feeds aren't customizable yet. They're supposed to have stuff by like Hauerwas and Žižek, but I haven't seen anything yet.
Project Syndicate - This is the ultimate op/ed section on the web.If you click on anything on the right, the column or series RSS button will appear on the top right center which you can click to subscribe to something more specific. I love Raghu Rajan, although I don't follow him on here (I do follow his blog Fault Lines). Again, that's if you find something that you like. Their wiki page.
Foreign Policy is one you might like. Don't read it myself except for "the Call" blog. I'd say it's good, 'cept Bernanke was the #1 pick and Obama #2 for their "FP Top 100 Global Thinkers" contest which is the sorta fluff piece we all secretly love.
Another I don't read at all is CFR's Foreign Affairs except for that podcast. Why mention it? Well, it's the corporatist choice. It's influential. I do love who with the whole conspiracy thing they're purportedly one-work government in the hands of a few wealthy families, but Obama who was on in the CFR is a "socialist" to right-wingers, so I'm not sure if you put those two together what that makes.
Now here's my take on the whole thing. Foreign policy and economics is a giant game with a bunch of players full of nothing but bullshit. They don't have the slightest clue with what's going on. Neither do we, so our part in the game is to try and figure it all out. Eventually, obvious candidates for bs start popping up. Probably a nicer way to phrase that is that people looking at the same data can come to very differing conclusions, but when writers are getting paid to act like they sound like they know what they're talking about I say it moves into bs.
The New Yorker - The Libra within my really appreciates the New Yorker. Started reading the occasional article in uni, especially with Dr. Morgan.
Worldmag.com -> Community -> Commentary - Alright, a word of defense. With this feed I do a LOT of browsing, mainly for one author, Anthony Bradley. He also has a blog that I'm subscribed to (The Institute), but I'm not sure how much you'll enjoy that. Bradley is a theology professor. He gets a lot of attention cause he's black and Reformed.
Speaking of Faith - Hour long NPR program once a week, comes on Sundays here? Ranges from mindbogglingly boring to insanely fascinating? We've all heard it right? The blog is even more interesting, cause it includes stuff related that they don't put in the program for media reasons.
As mentioned, I read the Freakonomics Blog.
Paul Krugman - I want you for a time to subscribe to this guy. He is a neo-Keynesian so you'll probably disagree with a lot of what he says, but it's still worthwhile reading material. He also has a blog.
Threat Level - This is a column for Wired monitoring governmental, business and cyber threats. I also check out Wired Science. That's not as spectacular, and they have a ton of other stuff too. It's fun, but I strongly recommend you subscribe to Threat Level.
Forgotten Stuff
Cristian Science Monitor had a reputation for non-sensationalized journalism. They've recently obviously moved exclusively to online. I always enjoyed reading their papers back in the day, but haven't checked it out.
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