Alternative media (U.S. political left)

This is a list of alternative media supporting the views of the American political left. It covers alternative media sources including talk radio programs, TV shows, podcasts, investigative journalism, documentaries, blogs and other alternative media sources.

Alternative news services

• AlterNet
• The American Prospect
• Common Dreams
• Consortium News
• Current Affairs
• Daily Kos
• Democracy Now!
• The Empire Files
• The Grayzone
• In These Times
• Indymedia
• Jacobin
• The Lever (headed by David Sirota, formerly The Daily Poster)
• The Majority Report with Sam Seder
• MintPress News
• The Nation
• The New Republic
• OpEdNews
• The Raw Story
• The Real News
• Redneck Revolt
• Reveal News
• ShadowProof
• Status Coup News
• Truthdig
• Truthout
• US Uncut
• Vice News
• Vox
• World Socialist Web Site
• ZNetwork

Alternative television networks

• Free Speech TV
• Link TV
• Means TV
• The Real News Network

Alternative television programs

• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• Democracy Now!
• Lee Camp (comedian)
• The Majority Report
• Secular Talk

Alternative radio and online programs and podcasts

• ACLU podcast
• Air America
• Chapo Trap House
• Current Affairs (podcast)^[1]
• Common Censored
• CounterSpin (radio program) by FAIR
• Democracy Now!
• The Empire Files
• Freethought Radio
• Hasan Piker
• Thom Hartmann Program
• The Intercept - Podcasts & Spoken Edition
• The Majority Report with Sam Seder
• Media Roots Radio
• Mintcast
• Pacifica Radio
• Ring of Fire
• SiriusXM Progress satellite radio
• The West Wing Thing

Alternative publications

• AlterNet, edited by Roxanne Cooper, acquired by The Raw Story
• The American Prospect, monthly, established 1990. Circulation 55,000.^[2]
• The Baffler, established 1988.^[2]
• CounterPunch, established 1993.
• Current Affairs, bimonthly, established 2015.
• Dissent, quarterly, established 1954.^[2]
• Dollars & Sense, bimonthly, established 1974.^[2]
• Fifth Estate, quarterly, established 1965.^[2]
• Freedom Socialist, bimonthly, established 1976. ^[3]
• In These Times, monthly, established 1976. Circulation 17,000.^[2]
• Indy Week
• The Indypendent, published 17 times per year, established 2000.^[2]
• Jacobin, established 2010.
• Labor Notes, monthly, established 1979.
• Left Turn, quarterly.^[2]
• Liberation News, official newspaper of The Party for Socialism and Liberation
• Monthly Review, monthly, established 1949. Circulation 7,000.^[2]
• Mother Jones, bimonthly, established 1974.^[2]
• The Nation, weekly, established 1865. Circulation 190,000.^[2]
• The New Hampshire Gazette, fortnightly, press run 5,500.^[2]
• New Politics (magazine), semiannually, established 1986.^[4]
• People's World, official newspaper of The CPUSA, est. 1924
• The Progressive, monthly, established 1909.^[2]
• Review of Radical Political Economics, quarterly, established 1968.
• Revolution, official newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, est. 1979
• The Socialist, official publication of Socialist Party USA
• Socialist Appeal, English-language Trotskyist newspaper, International Marxist Tendency
• Texas Observer, established 1954.^[2]
• Utne Reader, bimonthly, established 1984. Circulation 150,000.^[2]
• Z Magazine, monthly established 1977.^[2]

See also

• Alternative media (U.S. political right)
• Alternative press (disambiguation)
• American Left
• Progressive talk radio
• Underground press
• Breadtube
• Category:Modern liberal magazines published in the United States

References

1. "Culture & Politics". Current Affairs. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
2. Richard Lingeman (2009). The Nation Guide to the Nation. Vintage. ISBN 9780307387288.
3. "Freedom Socialist". Encyclopedia of Marxism Online. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
4. "About New Politics". New Politics. Retrieved 2019-07-18.