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What are your go-to news sources?
I always feel a step behind when it comes to the current administration’s actions. It usually takes about a month for the real substance—beyond the initial outrage-driven headlines—to reach me, along with the actual reasoning behind any given policy.
It also seems like much of the discourse is happening on Twitter, which is frustrating. I have a deep disdain for social media and have no desire to be more online than I already am.
Have to give a shout out to The Motte and the people that run it. It's a great resource.
I'd appreciate any recommendations you might have!
For political news, I recently started watching Straight Arrow News on YouTube. Their whole deal is that they follow each news item with information on how the left and the right are spinning it. This is, of course, just as susceptible to partisan bias as any other news source, but generally the bias they present each side as having does seem to reflect what I notice about the bias each side is having (this, itself, is susceptible to confirmation bias on my part), and I think, at the very least, learning of the partisan biases along with the actual news information is helpful.
For similar reasons, I recently started watching the show Rising from The Hill, which follows news items with commentary by 2 commentators, one leftwing and one rightwing (the former seems to change often, while the latter is almost always Robby Soave, a libertarian from Reason magazine).
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