Birds of a feather. Our favorite sites about or related to political ideas, esp. non/bipartisanship, civic engagement, good government, creativity, innovation, technology, the future, and faith.
“Grant us to know that it is not the beginning, but the continuing of the same, until it be thoroughly finished, that yieldeth the true glory”
–Sir Francis Drake
The Bulwark
Started by Never-Trump Republicans, but now features political pros on both sides who can help us navigate the rough waters for democracy ahead.
Medium
Pay the extra $5/month to keep them going, and get the best, freshest writing anywhere customized and delivered daily…
Participatory Budgeting Project
Living the grail–we, the people, not politicians or bureaucrats, decide directly where $300M (and counting) of government dollars get spent…
COVID Act Now
If/when you’re tired of staring glumly and helplessly at Hopkins or Worldometers, and want some news you can actually use, to help yourself, if not the country…
Save The Internet
The coalition fighting the other big existential threat to democracy–and free markets. Donald Trump’s ability to use social media to jujitsu billions worth of TV ads should tell us that Net neutrality is far more important than tilting at Citizens United…
Washington Monthly
Quietly producing the most creative, insightful, readable political and policy analysis in the country…
The Conversation
In an era when expertise of all kinds is under siege, The Conversation is providing an invaluable service, providing opportunities for researchers to explain their findings and implications in plain, even lively prose. Already more than 70,000 scholars around the world are contributing…
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Acronym
Africtivists
Anonymous
Aspiration
BillTrack50
Extinction Rebellion
Fix Our House
Flippable
Headcount
Justice For Katie — we have not forgotten
Lincoln Project, The
National Conference of State Legislatures
Nerd Wallet
NextGen America
The New Georgia Project
Participatory Budgeting Project
Redneck Revolt
Republican Voters Against Trump
Saving The Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Sister District
Skateistan
Verified Voting
Vote
VoterCircle
Vote With Me
Working Assets
What great activist site(s) are we missing? Let us know, and if we include them, we’ll send you a free Creative Politics coffee mug–not for sale on the site or anywhere in stores!
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ACE Engage
ACLU Voting
The All-In Campus Democracy Challenge
The Audacious Project
Camp Pasquaney
Campaign Legal Center
Campus Compact
Campus Vote Project
Civics Education Initiative
CIVICUS
CivXNow
Democracy Cum Laude
Democracy Works
District Builder
Democracy Fund
Everyday Democracy
Generation Citizen
Hold The Line
Homeboy Industries
Institute for Democracy & Higher Education
League of Women Voters
McCormick Foundation
National Election Defense Coalition
National Endowment for Democracy
National Governors Association
Obama Foundation
Our American Voice
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Pizza To The Polls
Points of Light Foundation
Power The Polls
Protect Democracy
Protect The Results
Renewing Democracy
Republicans for the Rule of Law
SeeClickFix
Students Learn, Students Vote
Shoah
Tuesday Company, The
VoteRiders
Vote Smart
What Works Cities
White Earth Tribal & Community College
Young Invincibles
It’s your duty to let us know the great civic sites that need to be included here, and ours to reward you for doing so…
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Adobe Awards
Adobe EdEx
American Hiking Society
Aspen Institute
Burning Man
Cicero
CityLab
Coffitivity
Collective Shift/LRNG
Cotyledon Productions
Creativity Post
Edutopia
Flopstarter
Institute of Play
James Gee
Jane McGonigal
John Seely Brown
MacArthur Foundation
MindShift
Minecraft
MIT Media Lab
New Voices
NSF Media & Informal Science Learning
No Man’s Sky
Open IDEO
Origami.me
Pet Town
PostSecret
Scratch
SimCity
SodaPlay
TED
Uncountabirds
Webby Awards
Everyone knows creativity and coffee go together–send us a site you think should be on here and if we agree, we’ll send you a free Creative Politics coffee mug…
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Aeon
Borges Center
Brain Pickings
Creative Politics
Daedalus
Edge
Eudaimonia & Co
Fooled By Randomness
Journal Of The American Revolution
Kurt Andersen
Nassim Taleb
Niels Bohr Archive
Rebecca Solnit
Santa Fe Institute
Feels like we’re just scratching the surface–you agree?
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12th Man Rising
Afropop Worldwide
Babylon Berlin
Boing Boing
Bored Panda
Breakfast Club, The
Bucky’s 5th Quarter
Cheezburger
Cicero
Cool Infographics
Dank Memes
Deadwood
Documentary Now
Douglas Adams
Field Gulls
Freakonomics
The Good Place
Hardcore History
Hiphop Archive
Horrendous Fiasco
Inspirobot
Mental Floss
Nardwuar
Orsinal
Radiolab
Rather Good
Revisionist History
Seahawk Maven
Slow Burn
Snap Judgment
Studio 360
The Root
This American Life
VICE
Whadya Know
The Wire
The World According To Sound
Are your eyes starting to glaze over? Then we need more sites like these…
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1776
Altucher Confidential
Business Insider
Clay Shirky
Democracy Fund, The
Doblin
EdSurge
Fast Company
Google Foundation
Hewlett Foundation
Higher Ground Labs
Motley Fool
New Media Ventures
Quartz
Revolution
Seth’s Blog
You can see we need all the help we can get; who else is making waves we and our fellow hustlers can ride on?
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Accelerating Intelligence
Institute for Global Futures
Institute for the Future
Long Bets
Paul Mason
Toffler Associates
Hoping your looking glass is less smudged and dark than ours, and that you know some seers who are not just for suckers we can climb the shoulders of…
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All Sides
Amy For America
Bipartisan Policy Center
Braver Angels
Bridge The Divide
Centrist Project
Hands Across Hills
Media Bias/Fact Check
Moderate Voice, The
More In Common
New America
No Labels
ProCon
Project Implicit
Quillette
Read Across The Aisle
South By Southwest
Third Way
The Unrig Summit
Your Bias Is
On the one hand, this is a pretty good list–on the other hand, couldn’t it be better?
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Alcoholics Anonymous
Daily Good, The
Good News Network
Open Mind Learning
Optimist International
Steven Kotler
Upworthy
Surely there’s more basis for hope than this–we’re putting our lucky pennies where our wist is, giving free Creative Politics coffee mugs to anyone who can make our day…
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Cato Institute
Federalist, The
Harper’s
Naked Capitalism
National Review
Outside The Beltway
Reason
Salon
Slate
Utne Reader, The
Washington Monthly
Weekly Standard, The
There are literally tons of opinion sites out there (really–atoms are just another form of information, mostly empty space), but give us your own…
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BeliefNet
Emotions & Disease
Interfaith Alliance
Joel Osteen
John Pavlovitz
The Leftovers
Martin Marty Center
The Pluralism Project
Sojourners
Tikkun
The world needs a good site for animists and mystics–want to build one with us? Or are we missing something, here, there, and everywhere?
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Black Mirror
Center for Humane Technology
Engadget
International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
James Gee
Kevin Kelly
Mashable
MIT Media Lab
MIT Technology Review
Reply All
TechCrunch
The Next Web
WIRED
Isn’t it a little embarrassing that after 30+ years in this industry, this is all we can think of? Internet-induced dementia, or a sad commentary? Tell us…
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Better Life
Brookings Institution
Early Warning Project
Economic Policy Institute
Genocide Watch
Global Terrorism Database
Happy Planet
Heritage Foundation
Lawfare
New World Wealth
Pew Charitable Trusts
Project Syndicate
Rand
Rocky Mountain Institute
Stratfor
Tax Foundation
Think–are there other great policy sites we’re missing, or are they all tanking?
We know there are a lot of great sites in these categories we’re missing. This is your community: if you have a suggestion for a site you feel should be added, or a new category altogether, send it to us here. If we add it to our list, we’ll send you a free Creative Politics coffee mug–not for sale on the site or anywhere in stores…