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Do you have any suggestions for blogs that you like? Would be interested in adding some to my info diet.

throwaway09223 5y ago
I used to mostly read on my commute and it's been a few years, but the most approachable is probably https://abovethelaw.com/ https://abovethelaw.com/. It has quite a bit of fluff and humor mixed in. Popehat is usually quite good, especially when there's some kind of nonsense narrative going around. Good debunking explainers https://www.popehat.com/ https://www.popehat.com/ Volokh conspiracy has very good analysis of current events as well: https://reason.com/volokh/ https://reason.com/volokh/ (was at WaPo, was independent before that. I haven't read it in a while) There's a lot of other really great stuff around as well, like the lw blog collection: https://www.lw.com/blogs https://www.lw.com/blogs
- ceejayoz 5y ago
  Popehat's Twitter is a really good source for "is legal issue x actually a big deal?" sanity checks on breaking news. Sometimes it's "yes, this is actually quite big"; other times it's "this is a breathless depiction of something that happens 20 times a day and is entirely normal procedure".
Mezzie 5y ago
What types of news do you follow? Some suggestions are: - SCOTUSBlog - Law 360 - Bloomberg Law - ABA Journal News - Courthouse News The primary benefit to using legal sources for your news is that the legal news cycle does not match up with the 24 hour news cycle. For example, right now we're talking about SCOTUS's 2022-2023 case docket, and that doesn't even start until October. Also because lawyers like to cover their butts/believe in getting everything in writing, a lot of their back and forth is available to the public, which lets you get better context for arguments.
harshitaneja 5y ago
In India, Live Law is pretty good.
terr-dav 5y ago
Not a blog, but a (highly opinionated) podcast: https://www.fivefourpod.com/ https://www.fivefourpod.com/

I used to mostly read on my commute and it's been a few years, but the most approachable is probably https://abovethelaw.com/ https://abovethelaw.com/. It has quite a bit of fluff and humor mixed in. Popehat is usually quite good, especially when there's some kind of nonsense narrative going around. Good debunking explainers https://www.popehat.com/ https://www.popehat.com/ Volokh conspiracy has very good analysis of current events as well: https://reason.com/volokh/ https://reason.com/volokh/ (was at WaPo, was independent before that. I haven't read it in a while) There's a lot of other really great stuff around as well, like the lw blog collection: https://www.lw.com/blogs https://www.lw.com/blogs

ceejayoz 5y ago
Popehat's Twitter is a really good source for "is legal issue x actually a big deal?" sanity checks on breaking news. Sometimes it's "yes, this is actually quite big"; other times it's "this is a breathless depiction of something that happens 20 times a day and is entirely normal procedure".

Mezzie 5y ago

What types of news do you follow? Some suggestions are: - SCOTUSBlog - Law 360 - Bloomberg Law - ABA Journal News - Courthouse News The primary benefit to using legal sources for your news is that the legal news cycle does not match up with the 24 hour news cycle. For example, right now we're talking about SCOTUS's 2022-2023 case docket, and that doesn't even start until October. Also because lawyers like to cover their butts/believe in getting everything in writing, a lot of their back and forth is available to the public, which lets you get better context for arguments.

harshitaneja 5y ago

In India, Live Law is pretty good.

terr-dav 5y ago

Not a blog, but a (highly opinionated) podcast: https://www.fivefourpod.com/ https://www.fivefourpod.com/