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Books/Culture
- Bookforum
- Context Magazine
- Conversational Reading
- Critical Mass
- El Clarín’s Revista Ñ
- El País’ Babelia
- First Drafts
- Guardian Book Blog
- Guardian Books
- Jacket Copy
- London Review of Books
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
- Moby Lives
- N1BR
- New Statesman Books
- New York Review of Books
- NYTimes Book Review
- Paper Cuts
- Paper Tiger
- Powell’s Review-A-Day
- Quarterly Conversation
- Second Pass
- Sentences
- Sp!ked review of books
- Telegraph Culture Section
- The Elegant Variation
- The Millions
- The New Yorker
- The New Yorker’s Book Bench
- Three Percent
- Times Literary Supplement
General places of interest
- ALDaily
- AlterNet
- Atlantic Online
- Boing Boing
- BOMB
- Boston Globe Ideas Section
- Cabinet
- Intellectual Affairs
- James Wolcott’s Vanity Fair blog
- Kottke.org
- LA Times
- More Intelligent Life
- net critique
- New York Magazine
- Prospect
- Sign & Sight
- Slant
- Slate
- The Awl
- The Morning News
- The Rest is Noise (Alex Ross)
- The Smart Set
- Virginia Quarterly Review
Music
NYC
Politics
- Activate
- Afuera y Adentro
- Al Jazeera English
- Der Spiegel International
- Dissent
- Fact Checker
- Foreign Policy: Passport
- Gallup Daily
- GlobalPost
- Huffington Post
- Interesting Times (George Packer’s blog)
- La Plaza- LA Times’ Latin America blog
- Mama Said Wonk You Out (Ezra Klein)
- Media Matters
- Net.Effect
- Opendemocracy
- Politico
- Real Clear Politics
- Talking Points Memo
- The Daily Beast
- The Lede
- The Nation
- The New Republic
- Think Tank (Steve Coll)
- Truth Out
Science
Slate
- Feed has moved
El Clarín
- Obama llegó a China en busca de un nuevo orden mundial
- Preguntas en Internet
- Gigante asiático y el mayor prestamista de EE.UU.
- Apaciguar la desconfianza
- Debilitado, Berlusconi piensa en renunciar y presentarse a elecciones
- Comicios locales en la tensa Kosovo
- Una realidad social que es cada vez más sombría
NYTimes Most Emailed
- Op-Ed Columnist: Triumph of a Dreamer
- Design: Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists
- Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform
- Small-Business Guide: How to Market Your Business With Facebook
- Selling Lessons Online Raises Cash and Questions
- Op-Ed Contributor: My Near Death Panel Experience
- Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective
Le Monde Europe
- 100 questions sur la grippe A(H1N1)
- Un juge français réélu à la tête de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme
- Climat : "On a besoin de l'impulsion que pourraient donner les Etats-Unis et la Chine"
- L'Union européenne manque de femmes pour occuper les fonctions stratégiques
- Poutine et le rap russe, une histoire d'amour
- L'Albanie tout près de l'Union européenne
- Aux Pays-Bas, Big Brother utilise le GPS pour réduire CO2 et embouteillages
The Washington Post
- Opponents of health-care effort look to fund a critical economic study
- So much for the power of incumbency
- House health bill includes Medicaid relief for states
- Immigration looms as sticking point in health-care legislation
- Digest
- U.S., Chinese emissions cuts are key to climate treaty
- A Republican on every ballot
ELPAIS.com – Guerras, Conflictos y Malestar social
- Un testigo clave confiesa que iba a cometer un atentado suicida en el metro de Barcelona
- El Supremo inhabilita ocho años al concejal que amenazó de muerte a la alcaldesa de Lizartza
- Zelaya cierra la puerta a su restitución en la presidencia
- Al menos cuatro muertos en un ataque suicida en Pakistán
- Los vecinos de Madrid se manifiestan contra la tasa de basuras
OpenDemocracy
- Britain's pro-Israeli lobbby,
- Iran warned time running out for negotiated nuclear settlement,
- Drug addiction: not quite as simple as Russia v the West,
- The twilight of the middle east peace process,
- Contra Zadek: a global deal is worth the candle,
- Iraqi Doctors in Britain and the War on Terror,
- US ambassador's opposition to troop increases in Afghanistan revealed,
Reuters AlertNet
- Kuwaiti firm accused of overcharging U.S. Army
- U.N. preparing Iraq-Kuwait reconciliation plan
- Group says to name disputed Merkel ally to museum
- U.S. Senators unveil bill to double nuclear power
- Delays show fragility of Nigeria's oil delta amnesty
- Israel's Netanyahu weathers new coalition threat
- Binding climate treaty may slip far in to 2010
