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NOVA access to MAJOR NEWSPAPERS and MEDIA
The best newspapers in America are the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. Two of them are seen as left-leaning, and one is seen as right-leaning. Unfortunately for lots of people, much of these newspapers’ content sits behind paywalls. NOVA, however, helps us climb over many of those walls. This is helpful, because so much of free content is dishonest, and social media exacerbates that problem. Please follow the below steps to access the best information, offering the most thorough explanations of what goes on around us. It’s not perfect, but you will learn more honest news from these sources.
Here's an awesome way to access major news sources for free:
You can access major paid publications, like the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Time Magazine, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy (among other new sources) through this NOVA Libraries PLS NEWS website (scroll down to the selected news sources, and you will log in with your MyNOVA account).
Here’s a slightly more direct link to the major newspapers.
Other sources of journalism available for free:
Media Bias Chart from ALL SIDES
International and national:
Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/
Associated Press (AP): https://apnews.com/
BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news
Aljazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/
Global Voices: https://globalvoices.org/
Axios: https://www.axios.com/
Politico: https://www.politico.com/
Roll Call: https://rollcall.com/
The Hill: https://thehill.com/
These two sites point out the balance of various news items, letting people know if there is a left or right lean to the articles:
This Week in Africa. Substack. Most Substack subscriptions come with a price, but this one is so far FREE. It’s a great array of links every week of news on Africa.
The Continent. Another weekly publication on Africa. You can check out the website, and you can get it delivered to you via WhatsApp. FREE.
Center for Global Development. This is a link to sign up for information from them. I like their “What We’re Reading” Friday email. FREE.
Fox News: https://www.foxnews.com/
CNN: https://www.cnn.com/
MSNBC: https://www.msnbc.com/
PBS Newshour: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/
National Public Radio (NPR): https://www.npr.org/
Frontline: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/
CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/
International Relations Paradigms and Theories: https://libguides.usc.edu/c.php?g=234935&p=1559230
Key Theories of International Relations: https://online.norwich.edu/online/about/resource-library/key-theories-international-relations
PDF on major theories of IR: https://www.e-ir.info/pdf/107102
State:
Virginia news from news organizations across the Commonwealth, via VPAP: https://www.vpap.org/vanews/
Virginia Mercury: https://www.virginiamercury.com/
Local:
Loudoun Times-Mirror: https://www.loudountimes.com/
Loudoun Now: https://loudounnow.com/
Interesting resources:
- Good Authority - a reader-friendly overview of political science
- Real Clear Politics - great resource to check public opinion on politics and to get an up-to-date daily take on major and diverse opinions. The "Real Clear" suite of sites includes "Real Clear Policy," "Real Clear World," "Real Clear History," "Real Clear Education," and lots of others. Perhaps a useful resource for research on current events.
- New York Times’s Upshot - similar to Monkey Cage, but wider array of social science
- CRS Reports - The Congressional Research Service writes up lots of great reports on all sorts of issue that Congress might pass legislation on.
- JLARC - Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission for Virginia's General Assembly; they do lots of research on policies of Virginia and publish excellent reports.
- Scotusblog: Great resource for understanding Supreme Court decisions.
- Sabato’s Crystal Ball (UVA)
- Political Science Now, from the American Political Science Association
- Mischiefs of Faction, a political science blog
- Kevin Lewis’s review of academic research from National Affairs
- American Journal of Political Science article summaries
- Political Behavior journal
- Marginal Revolution, a blog by two GMU economists
- Vox
- Kyla Scanlon's economics YouTube Channel
- Political Science posts on Marginal Revolution
- Saideman’s Semi-Spew, a political scientist
- US Foreign Assistance: see how much the US gives to specific countries, or get an overview of the entire US Foreign Assistance effort.
- Arts and Letters Daily Substack, from The Chronicle of Higher Education. They send out a free email with a couple of wide-ranging links to articles. A&L Daily also has a larger free website.
- Links to all sorts of information on guns in America and gun violence in America.
- Governor powers across the US
- 2021 Book of the States, with lots of data on differences among the 50 states.
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