A full list of the top 25 culture newsletters and podcasts on Substack. Read about the latest pop culture moments, style, movies, music and beyond, and how culture impacts the wider world.
Abortion, Every Day is a comprehensive daily newsletter dedicated to abortion rights, and the feminist community that supports it, written by Jessica Valenti.
Subscribers get emails every weekday tracking anything and everything happening with abortion: from anti-choice legislation and court battles to analysis of conservative strategy and stories of women denied care. AED also publishes columns, explainers, investigations, interviews, TikTok roundups and more.
Webworm is an award-winning newsletter that sees documentary maker & journalist David Farrier (Tickled, Dark Tourist, Mister Organ) diving down various wormholes, both online and in the real world. Thanks to its generous readers Webworm holds power to account, and finds compelling stories that shock, entertain and inform. With various contributing writers, keep up with the world through Webworm's eyes - and join in the kind, smart and funny Webworm community.
A long-form culture and politics podcast that will make you smarter, saner, and exponentially more unbearable at family get-togethers with each new episode.
TRIGGERnometry is a free-speech YouTube show and podcast. We believe in open, fact-based discussion of important and controversial issues.
Hosted by Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster)
GOOD MOVIE is a publication about movies. Once a week, we post one essay about one good movie. Written by Shea Serrano, author of four New York Times bestsellers.
Things That Don’t Suck is a digital bouquet filled with flowers that bloom on the bright side. Andrea Gibson will help you notice the silver linings, and hunt for the truffles of joy in this sometimes muddied life.
An ongoing conversation about the daily mess of life: Family, politics, books, teaching, writing, journalism - and dogs, always dogs. In my world, hope is a fact.
Writes on everything from football to medical research fraud to Yellowstone to Rembrandt, movies, mind control, fake culture, fake viruses, King Arthur, Yeats, Biden, Trump, censors