Politics Blogs

Journals and opinions that run the gamut from conservative to liberal.

Resources in this category:

Afro-Netizen
http://afronetizen.blogs.com/afronetizen/an_blog/index.html

Founded by Chicagoan Chris Rabb in 1999, Afro-Netizen is a "net-centric social experiment whose mission is to inform, inspire and engage afro-netizens (Black 'citizens of the internet') and the communities they touch."

The Agonist | thoughtful, gloomy, timely
http://scoop.agonist.org/

Looking to be the muscle that gets the collective body moving, the Agonist is a collective blog that accepts stories from registered members. The stories are screened by the site’s editors, but comments and discussion are not. Most of the stories are on the war.

All Spin Zone - Blog Zone
http://allspinzone.com/wp/

"A small group of progressive political junkies work this blog to give you our spin on the spin."

Anderson@Large
http://andersonatlarge.typepad.com/

Chicagoan Faye Anderson is a writer, public policy consultant, and online political commentator (who blogged for PoliticallyBlack.com before blogging was, well, blogging), who shares her views as a moderate Republican and African-American woman.

Andrew Sullivan : The Daily Dish
http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/

Political blogger Andrew Sullivan has been a contributing writer and columnist for New York Times Magazine and a columnist for the Sunday Times of London.

Blogs for Victo(R)y
http://blogsforvictory.com/

"Blogs For Victory is an online community of bloggers dedicated to victory for the Republican Party and the war on terror." Formerly known as Blogs For Bush, which launched in November of 2003 to cover the 2004 election.

The Corner on National Review Online
http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp

Web log for the politically conservative magazine National Review.

The Corner on National Review Online
http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp

Popular multi-author blog covering politics from a conservative perspective, put together by the staff of the National Review Online.

Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.
http://www.dailykos.com/

Extremely influential liberal weblog managed by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, as a part of his political consulting firm. Around 100,000 people visit his site per day.

Davenetics
http://davenetics.com/category/politics/

Blogging before they had a name for it, San Franciscan Dave Pell is a little more down-to-earth than the average political blogger. He describes himself as a "centrist Democrat," and his blog provides commentary on the latest political news. Merged with the previous Electablog.

Drudge Report
http://www.drudgereport.com/

Earning a great deal of notoriety for revealing that Newsweek had initially abandoned the story about President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, journalist Matthew Drudge's site is a potpourri of the latest headlines and gossip collected from various news sites.

Editor's Cut
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut

Instead of being the first with the latest, this left-leaning blog by Katrina vanden Heuvel, the managing editor of the political magazine, The Nation, rather reflects on what has been on the news and draws visitors’ attention to what should have been there.

Election Law
http://electionlawblog.org/

Rick Hansen is a Professor of Law and is nationally known for his expertise in election law and campaign finance regulation. He shares this expertise in his blog covering and commenting on news and events related to these issues.

Eschaton
http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/

Probably the best-known of the progressive election/politics blogs, written with short, snappy, often highly sarcastic entries by Duncan Black, a.k.a. Atrios.

The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Former conservative (but not calling herself a liberal), Arianna Huffington is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of ten books. She has done numerous guest spots on political talk shows and news shows. Her blog attracts many well-known political figures and celebrities who comment on various events around the nation.

HughHewitt.com
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/

Hugh Hewitt writes for the right-wing magazines WorldNetDaily and Weekly Standard and hosts a nationally syndicated radio show. On this site, this three-time Emmy winner blogs from a right-wing perspective on news and events.

Instapundit
http://www.instapundit.com/

University of Tennessee law professor Glen Reynolds's greatly imitated and widely read political weblog (He's sometimes known as the BlogFather.) While he says he is primarily interested in the overlap between personal freedom and advanced technology, his blog often dissects journalistic coverage and comments on the increasingly blurry line between politics and journalism. He is generally critical of those on the left, but that may be simplifying his stance somewhat.

Kausfiles - a mostly political weblog - hosted by Slate
http://www.slate.com/?id=3944&cp=2065132

Mickey Kaus reads, links, and responds to many other political bloggers and online news pieces. He also has great bumper-sticker, one-liner descriptions of some of the most popular blogs out there.

LaShawn Barber's Corner
http://lashawnbarber.com/

A conservative, Christian, Africa-American woman blogging on politics and recent news, Barber started writing opinion pieces after finding sobriety and faith in Jesus Christ. From the site’s "About" page: "I’m a freelance writer (and blogger) with articles, book reviews, columns and essays published in print…My work also appears online in Jewish World Review, Townhall.com and other sites. My bi-weekly political column is published on GOPUSA, MichNews.com, Grace-Centered Magazine, TheRightReport.com, American Daily and other sites."

Little Green Footballs
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

A popular blog by Charles Johnson, a California web designer, who covers politics from a not liberal perspective.

Michelle Malkin
http://michellemalkin.com/

Michele Malking is a Fox News Contributor, and so her blog comes from the right side of the political spectrum. From the "ABOUT" page: "My column, now syndicated by Creators Syndicate, appears in nearly 200 papers nationwide. My first book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores (Regnery 2002), was a New York Times bestseller."

MyDD
http://www.mydd.com/

While the fact-checking ("Due Diligence") done on this blog definitely does have a liberal bias (or an impetus, at least), Jerome Armstrong always shows where he gets his numbers and news, and visitors also enjoy more site-searching capabilities than the average blog makes available.

Outside the Beltway
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/

Ostensibly outside Washington D.C.’s I-495 and so in touch with the common man as opposed to the politicians in the U.S. capital, James Joyner started this blog by himself in 2003 and has become successful enough now to have a number of permanent contributors. Joyner is a decorated veteran of Operation Desert Storm and now works as "a management analyst at International Development Resources, Inc., a Washington, D.C. area defense contractor and works at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in Falls Church, Virginia." This blog champions conservative views and approaches recent political news and events decidedly from the Right.

OxBlog
http://oxblog.blogspot.com/

Blog providing news and a lot of commentary and political analysis from three semi-recent Oxford University grad students: Josh Chafetz, a law student at Yale, and David Adesnik and Patrick Belton, two grad students in international relations at Oxford. Funny, brilliant, and usually with interesting digressions.

PoliBlog
http://www.poliblogger.com/

An associate professor of Political Science at Alabama's Troy University, Steven Taylor provides news and humorous conservative-slanted commentary.

Political Animal - the blog for Washington Monthly
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

Formerly writing for his own blog, Calpundit, Kevin Drum now gives his liberal perspective on politics and culture at Washington Monthly's website.

Politopics
http://www.politopics.com/

Angela Winters is a Washington D.C. African-American freelance writer who is a self-proclaimed centrist in her political views. Her blog often provides interesting perspectives and provides numerous links to others news and political sites/blogs, African-American and otherwise.

RealClearPolitics
http://www.time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/

Arguably better than an RSS news feed, this blog provides daily links to selected headlines, columns, editorials from major news and print publication websites, results of the latest polls, as well as news-related talk show transcripts.

Right Reason
http://rightreason.ektopos.com/

From the first post on the site: "This site is dedicated to philosophical explorations of moral, cultural, and political conservatism. The contributors are a diverse bunch, but all are committed to challenging the liberalism regnant among intellectuals and to giving conservative principles a careful, powerful, philosophical defense. On this blog you will find philosophical examinations of topical issues like abortion, welfare, and terrorism, broad subjects like human dignity, private property, and just war, and even broader themes like the nature of persons, the concept of rights, and the foundations of moral theory. We hope you will find much here to provoke, stimulate, and inform. As philosophers, we welcome vigorous, reasoned debate. Strong disagreement is par for the course, though we aim to preserve an atmosphere of civility. Comments are and always will be enabled. Please join in the discussion!"

Right Wing News
http://www.rightwingnews.com/

Upset after "the horrible, biased job the media did in covering Florida [the 2000 election]," John Hawkins started a right-wing web site providing heated political discussion and a gateway to right-wing blogs, websites, and more heated political discussion.

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
http://politicalwire.com/

Goddard's pieces have appeared in major newspapers across the country, and he has written a widely acclaimed how-to guide for political novices who have been elected but have never served before in that office. His blog provides commentary on political news and gossip.

Talking Points Memo
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

Joshua Micah Marshall, a Washington columnist for The Hill and a contributing writer for the Washington Monthly, blogs about politics from a liberal point of view.

TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime
http://www.talkleft.com/

Jeralyn Merritt, a criminal defense lawyer practicing in and around Denver, created this blog as a companion to his CrimeLynx site. Both sites are intended to be criminal law resources, but the blog's purpose is to provide coverage from a liberal angle on crime and crime-related political news.

The World Forum
http://www.theworldforum.org/

A forum that encourages "the participation of people of all people and religious ideologies from the entire world." The site creator acknowledges a left-wing view, but he also expresses a deep desire to encourage intellectual debate and discussion betwen folks of all viewpoints.

TPM Cafe
http://www.tpmcafe.com/

From the "About TPMCafe" page: "TPMCafe is a public meeting place to read about and discuss politics, culture and public life in the United States. The site hosts both blogs and public discussion areas. It is owned and operated by TPM Media LLC, edited by Joshua Micah Marshall, and powered by the collaborative media application, Scoop."

WatchBlog - U.S. Election News & Opinion
http://www.watchblog.com/

A "watch blog" is a blog created to correct errors or bias in online news sites. WatchBlog's numerous editors/bloggers identify themselves as Democrat, Republican, or "Third Party & Independents." Each provides "news, opinion and commentary for the 2004 election" from one of these three viewpoints. This framework has been extended beyond the 2004 election.

washingtonpost.com White House Watch
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04...

A special column on the washingtonpost.com providing one reporter's (Dan Froomkin's) daily view on what's happening in the West Wing or with the people who work there as reported by selected major newspapers, periodicals, web sites, and blogs. Free registration required.

White House Watch - by Dan Froomkin - at washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04...

A special column on the washingtonpost.com providing one reporter's (Dan Froomkin's) daily view on what's happening in the West Wing or with the people who work there as reported by selected major newspapers, periodicals, web sites, and blogs. Free registration required.

Who Was Blogging the Democratic National Convention (in July 2004)?
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/001461.php

Cyberjournalist.net provides a list of people credentialed as bloggers in attendance at the DNC. A good list of important political bloggers.

Who Was Blogging the GOP Convention (in August 2004)?
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/001580.php

Cyberjournalist.net provides a list of people credentialed as bloggers in attendance at the RNC. A good list of important political bloggers.