Links to Some News Sources of Interest

 

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The Nation

Liberal weekly magazine. Tends to be critical of President Bush and the Administration.

The New Republic

Middle-of-the-road weekly magazine. More liberal on domestic than foreign policy.

National Review

Conservative weekly magazine associated with William Buckley.

The National Interest

Conservative magazine associated with William Kristol, a leading neoconservative.

Ha'aretz

Israeli liberal newspaper

Turkish Daily News

Main English-language Turkish paper

Jordan Times

Main English-language paper from Jordan

Arabnews

Al-Ahram

Well regarded Egyptian weekly, mostly not far from government policy.

Palestine Chronicle

NY Review of Books

A leading intellectual weekly review

Jerusalem Post

Middle of the road Israeli paper

Dawn (Pakistan news)

Al-Jazeera

Good source for a different perspective from that given in American news.

London Review of Books

Arts and Letters Daily

Some have called this a leading intellectual web site. A digest of articles basically chosen by Denis Dutton, philosophy professor at Canterbury University in New Zealand, formerly of UM-Dearborn (and my office mate when we had to share offices).

NPR (National Public Radio)

Most programs available in the archive. Can search by topic too.

BBC

One of the world’s best English-language radio and TV news sources. Interesting to see the British slant and how it differs from American news.