Charles Lipson

teaches international politics at the University of Chicago. He also writes for students about academic success and honest work at the university level.

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E-mail: c-lipson@uchicago.edu

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Charles Lipson

Professor of Political Science

University of Chicago

5828 S. University Ave.

Chicago, IL 60637

 

 

   News and Commentary: US and the World          

Independent news in English, organized by region and topic
General News and Headlines
AP: Top stories | World | US | Breitbart
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Iraq Coverage
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Wash.Post | NY Times | War Report links
International Herald Tribune Iraq (War) Daily wire services | Guardian (UK)
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New York Times | Memeorandum political news Afghanistan
CNN | CNN World News Afghan War News compilation | AfPac blog Foreign Policy mag
Slate | Fox | Drudge Military/Terror News
RealClear Politics | Daily Op Ed from big papers Counterterrorism blog
The Economist | daily analysis | blogs SITE Intelligence Group
Wall St. Journal | Best of Web Today WSJ War news bySpaceWar
Daily Telegraph UK | Deutsche Welle Washington Times | Jane's Defense
Jerusalem Post | Sandstorm news links by Martin Kramer US Politics & Presidential Campaign
New Republic | blog Politico.com | The Hotline
Weekly Standard | Daily RealClear Politics: Election News
Top papers in world (in English) by country, links Regional News Summaries
Top papers in US links to top 100 papers Europe | Asia | South America
Obits:NYT | Bos.Globe | Independent UK Mid East | Lipson Mid East page
World Press Review | MagPortal int. articles Business, Economy, Technology
Bookforum | blog | Arts&Letters Daily Business Week Daily | CNN/Money
Wikipedia | RefDesk Energy Daily | Engadget | Short Sharp Science
The Onion satire | Onion Video Tech. Review MIT | LiveScience
Blogs by category International politics Middle East World economy General economics
History Political theory War & Terror International Political Economy
Blogs on writing/teaching Plagiarism & honesty Writing better/ teaching better Education
International Politics commentary
    Int'l Politics columns    
Jim Hoagland Thomas Friedman Charles Krauthammer Fareed Zakaria Int Herald Trib columnists
Robert Kagan Daniel Pipes Victor David Hanson | blog Max Boot The Source Council on For Rel
David Ignatius John O'Sullivan Jackson Diehl Fouad Ajami John Keegan search for John Keegan
Trudy Rubin Bill Gertz military Michael O'Hanlon Project Syndicate Commentaries top international analysts
Fred Kaplan military Wash.Post op ed page   Watching America foreign papers' articles on US
    Int'l Politics blogs  
The Cable Foreign Policy mag: news Daniel W. Drezner outstanding blog Duck of Minerva Worldwide Standard Post Global Ignatius, Zacharia, etc
Passport Foreign Policy mag editors' blog OxBlog  Council on For Relations TigerHawk ICGA Informed Comment Global Affairs
Democracy Arsenal Atlantic Blog Wm Sjostrom War and Piece Laura Rozen Zen Pundit Mark Safranski Arms Control Wonk
Transatlantic Intelligencer American Future Innocents Abroad Winds of Change Austin Bay | Bay:On Point
Fistful of Euros Intelligence Watch Publius Pundit democratization The Interpreter Lowry Institute AU Belgravia Dispatch G.Djerejian
Europhobia J. Clive Matthews Anthony Clark Arend Int. Law blog DemocraticPeace | Freedomist RJ Rummel Adventures of Chester Washington Realist N.Gvosdev
Brussels Journal Open Democracy Across the Aisle In from the Cold ex-CIA Telegraph (UK) world blogs
Two Weeks Notice Latin Am. politics Gideon Rachman Financial Times Global Dashboard   More IR resources online
    War, Terror, Insurgency    
Small Wars Journal | Blog Danger Room Wired.com Michael Yon Iraq, Afghanistan Abu Muqawama Kings of War King's College London
Michael J. Totten Great reporting Long War Journal Counterintelligence News Counterterrorism blog Jihad Watch | Dhimmi Watch
Intel Dump Washington Post Arms and Influence DefenseTech War Nerd GovExec: Defense
Jeff Emanuel Jawa Report mostly on terrorism Abu Aardvark Marc Lynch Understanding War Terrorism news & research
Internet Anthro war intelligenc
Steve Emerson counter-terror Kings of War King's College London, war studies    
    Middle East, Iraq, Israel   My Middle East webpage has:
Sandstorm Martin Kramer MESH group blog Michael Doran on M.E. Threats Watch Daily Briefing Much more news about the Middle East
Stephen Schwartz terror; M.E.       Many more blogs about the Middle East
    World Economy    
Brad DeLong Managing Globalization Global Growth Globalization Institute Center for Trade Policy CATO
Sebastian Mallaby Int. Policy Network McKinsey Global Institute Niall Ferguson Matthew J. Slaughter
Nouriel Roubini Brad Setser Dani Rodrik William Easterly | blog James Pethokoukis Reuters
    Int. Political Economy    
IPE Zone IPE at UNC Thomas Oatley Ben Muse Dan Drezner   
General Blogs & Columns
    Politics blogs  
RealClear Politics Lucianne today's news InstaPundit Glenn Reynolds Big Government Andrew Breitbart Milt's Files Milt Roserberg
Contentions Commentary mag Pajamas Media Power Line Hinderaker,Johnson,Mirengoff New Ledger Open University New Republic
Mark Steyn | Steyn at Macleans Volokh Conspiracy law Daily Op Ed from several big papers Crooked Timber Protein Wisdom Jeff Goldstein
Jeff Jacoby Boston Globe American Thinker Déjà vu Judith Klinghoffer Andrew Tobias Spiked Brendan O'Neill; Mick Hume
TPM Cafe | foreign pol. Melanie Phillips | Articles UK PolySigh Philip Klinkner Reason Online The Glittering Eye
Talking Points Josh Marshall Reality-Based Community Secular Blasphemy Think Tank Town Wash Post Monkey Cage GWU pol.sci. faculty
Butterflies & Wheels WizBang Kevin Aylward et al. Hit and Run Reason magazine Noblesse Oblige Jewcy Jewish issues, views
Steven Krause academic American Power D.Douglas Kausfiles Slate 11D Laura McKenna Harry's Place UK
Bookworm Room Discriminations J & J Rosenberg Kids Prefer Cheese Mike Munger The Bleat James Lileks LawHawk:A blog for all
Hatemonger's Quarterly Hot Air group Random Jottings John Weidner Big Tent group JammieWearingFool
Megan McArdle Daimnation Damian Penny Armavirumque New Criterion ShrinkWrapped USS Neverdock
Easily Distracted Timothy Burke ResourcesShelf info professionals The New Centrist Thomas Reeves academic Outside the Beltway
Athens and Jerusalem The American Scene group Obsidian Wings Toronto Star ideas Blog portals & great links
Burchismo Greg Burch Liberal War Journal Entertaining Research Jim Miller on Politics Blue Eagle links to online columnists
Thomas Sowell Michael Barone | blog Egregious Moderation Sweetness & Light Columnists,editorials links
Scatterplot sociology But I am a Liberal Roland Dodds Chronicle of Higher Education Pharyngula bio & evolution Academic blogs portal H Farrell
Samizdata libertarian-freedom issues Dynamist Virginia Postrel Nat Hentoff RealDelia Delia Lloyd in London BlogScholar
Betsy's Page conservative Ross Douthat The New Editor Degrees of Freedom Libertarian InstaPundit Glenn Reynolds
Weekly Standard blog Just One Minute Political Wire Taegan Goodard of CQ New Majority.David Frum Technorati searches all blogs
Cato Unbound | Cato@Liberty Clive Crook Financial Times Ace of Spades Enterprise Blog AEI  
Ron Radosh Althouse Ann Althouse      
  Economics blogs  
Marginal Revolution Tyler Cowen Tim Harford: Undercover Economist Tim Harford: Dear Economist Library of Econ & Liberty Freakonomics blog
Gary Becker/Richard Posner Brad DeLong main page Cafe Hayek EconLog Cling,Kaplan, & Henderson Aplia Econ blog econ news
Econ Roundtable Wm Parke Econ Principals David Warsh One-Handed Economist Chicago Boyz Law & Econ Roundtable
Economist's View Mark Thoma Agoraphilia G.Whitman, T.Bell David Friedman Johan Norberg Everday Econ. Steven Landsburg
Greg Mankiw Stumbling and Mumbling C.Dillow Free Exchange The Economist ElectEcon Capital Commerce US News & Wrld Rpt
Market Power Phil Miller Arthur Diamond Dani Rodrik Truck and Barter group Adam Smith Lives! history of ec thought
Ferraris for All D. Ben-Ami Vox Baby Andrew Samwick Organizations & Markets Foss/Klein Interfluidity S. R. Waldman Econbrowser James D. Hamilton
Division of Labour group VoluntaryXchange Institutional Economics Knowledge Problem New Economist London-based
Oxonomics Everyday Economist Reviving Economics Garth Brazelton VoxEU Eric Rasmusen
Paul Krugman column | blog Clive Crook Club for Growth Overcoming Bias Max Borders Spontaneous Order
Caroline Baum Bloomberg columnist Amity Shlaes Bloomberg columnist Future of Capitalism Ira Stoll Cheap Talk Graph of the Day Randall Hoven
    History blogs    
Cliopatria group blog MagPortal mag.articles on history Historianess Rebecca Goetz No Great Matter Blogroll of historians by subject
Victorian Peeper Kristan Tetens Clio and Me Mark R. Stoneman History and Education Military History Carnival Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
History Web Sites Liberty & Power Deborah Lipstadt Historicus History Wire Stephen B. Goddard
H-Net | H-Net reviews | H-Diplo        
    Political Theory blogs    
Jacob T. Levy Virtual Philosopher N.Warburton Brooks Blog Thom Brooks Leiter Reports
TPM blog | TPM cafe Mark Vernon Stephen Law Public Reason  
Will Wilkinson a.k.a. Fly in a Bottle Understanding Society Daniel Little Great lists of philo.blogs: David Chalmers | EpistemeLinks
    Tech & Science     
Technology Review MIT The Economist Sci-Tech New Scientist (UK) C|Net News The Independent (UK) Sci-Tech
Science mag. | daily news Wired | LiveScience New Scientist: Climate Change Alternative Energy blog NY Times: Tech  Science
Blorge: Green Tech Popular Mechanics SciTech Daily Review Green Tech Media Future Pundit
Science Blog The Missing Link Engadget Short Sharp Science Potential Energy MIT
 
Education, Teaching, Writing, & Academic Honesty
 
For blogs on education, teaching, writing, & academic honesty click here Education news: here
Major News Topics today's news on each topic
Nuclear Weapons Terrorism World Economy  Israel and Palestine Europe
War news  Energy Daily Asia Middle East  

Other News Sites (US)
Politics Daily New Republic Int. Herald Tribune Business Daily Review FactCheck Annenberg-U.Penn.
Daily Beast | DB's Cheat Sheet The Forward Jewish NRO National Review The National Interest American.com
Huffington Post Townhall University Newspapers links StrategyPage  Best news search: AltaVista
Time | Newsweek Roll Call Capitol Hill The Globalist econ, politics, history Tech Central Station ABC News: Int'l | The Note
Newsweek International The Hill Capitol Hill NationMaster worldwide stats Ananova Leno, Letterman, Conan, etc.
US News & World Report Gawker Topix World News Topix headlines Technorati searches blogs
Weekly Standard | Daily Reuters ProPublica investigative journalism Obituaries:: NYT | AP | Boston Globe | Independent UK
Yahoo! News Fair Spin determines left-right bias in reporting Global Post
    Major US Daily Papers    
NY Times Washington Post USA Today world | Washington Philadelphia Inquirer Memphis New Orleans
NY Daily News Washington Times Los Angeles Times Columbus Dispatch Miami Phoenix
NY Post Washington Examiner San Jose Mercury News Dallas Morning News Orlando Seattle P-I
NY Newsday Christian Science Monitor San Francisco Chronicle Houston Chronicle Top 100 US Papers links to each
Boston Globe Minneapolis Star-Tribune San Diego Union-Tribune Atlanta Journal-Constitution Top papers in each US state
    Sweet Home, Chicago     
Chicago Tribune WGN | live radio Beyond the Beltway Bruce Dumont Chicago Business Extension 720 w Milt Rosenberg
Chicago Sun-Times NBC5 TV (news page) Chicago Magazine | Dining Chicagoist Chicago Now multiple blogs about Chicago
Chicago Reader weekly WBBM (news page) Metromix social events, movies Examiner.com/Chicago White Sox | Cubs | Bears
Chicago Breaking News        
    Magazines (longer articles    
Smithsonian Magazine City Journal Commentary mag. | Blog Hoover Digest Int. Affairs journals links to all
Atlantic foreign policy articles Wilson Quarterly NPQ New Perspectives Quarterly Policy Review Hoover The Source Council on Foreign Relations
Journal of Democracy Dissent American Spectator Global Politician  
    News Channels    
CNN CNN World CBS ABC Fox CNBC     Online audio news here
    Political Predictions    
Intrade Iowa Electronic Markets Inkling Markets Chris Masse | blog Nasty, Brutish, & Tall blog
Strategy Page political predictions NewsFutures Long Bets very long-term   Prediction markets Wikipedia article
    Political Polls    
RealClear Politics poll aggregator PollingReport Washington Post Fox             CBS Pew              Gallup
WorldPublicOpinion.org Eurobarometer MysteryPollster blog Roper         Mori UK PIPA             Zogby
    Southern Memories     
Deep Fried Kudzu Southern Spaces journal Delta Dirt Mississippi Delta blog   Oxford American Southern writing & culture
News Parodies, Humor, Odd News
The Onion satire | Onion Video Reuters: Oddly Enough Obscure Store news stories News jokes by Leno, Letterman, Conan, etc.
Borowitz Report satire USA Today: Offbeat Topix: Offbeat news stories Weird News at About.com
Scrappleface satire Ironic Times The Register UK Lipson's Fun Page
Overheard in the Newsroom Fail Blog GraphJam  
General Reference Sources
RefDesk best general reference source Martindale Reference Center Historical Atlas of the 20th Century Matthew White
Biographical Dictionary modern, historical Library of Congress Library of Congress Research Tools
VoS superb academic links, searchable Bartleby's terrific; searchable "great books" WWW Virtual Library of International Affairs
Internet Public Library NY Pub Library Digital Source Encyclopedia Mythica myths from many cultures
Acronym Finder Enders Soc Sci Research Links Book reviews on my Politics and Culture Page
Concise Encyclopedia of Economics Etymological Dictionary Online Internet Source Guides: Yahoo! | Librarians' Index
Stanford Encyc.of Philosophy Philosophical Dictionary Who Runs Government? biographies of current US officials
Encyclopedia: Wikipedia | 1Up | Encarta Thesaurus: Thesaurus.com  
Atlas: Encarta  |  MapQuest  |  National Geographic | US Census Reference Maps
Dictionary:  Encarta  |  Dictionary.com  |  HyperDictionary  |  OneLook scans multiple dictionaries | Confusing Words | Urban Dictionary slang
Country Data: NationMaster  | CIA Fact Book | Portals to World | CountryReports | Freedom House | World Audit focus on democracy, rights
Quotations: Bartleby |ThinkExistQuotationsPage | Quoteland | Yahoo! Guide | Online SpeechBank | Wikiquote | Giga-quotes

Europe
Europe Daily EuroNews print, video EUpolitix EurActiv EU enlargement European Voice Brussels
CNN Europe Central Europe Review Expatica News for US expats Eurozine net-magazine Mark Gilbert columnist on Eur. markets

    Britain    
Daily Telegraph Financial Times Guardian Times Sunday Times
BBC Front Page Independent      
    Ireland    
Irish Times Irish Examiner      
    France    
Tocqueville Connection Le Monde in French only Le Monde Diplomatique in English; in French  
    Germany    
Deutsche Welle various media Der Spiegel lead articles Sight & Sound essays, ideas    
    Russia    
Moscow Times Pravda      
    Other European States    
Aftenposten Norway Budapest Sun Hungary Spain Herald Kathimerini Greece Radio Netherlands print, audio
SwissInfo.Com Warsaw Voice Turkish Daily News The Local Sweden  

Canada
Globe and Mail Canada.com National Post Maclean's weekly CBC News
Toronto Star Ottawa Citizen Vancouver Sun Gazette Montreal  
 Middle East
News about Middle East Blogs about Middle East News and research on Terrorism  
Asia
CNN Asia Asiaweek.Com Asia Times BBC: South Asia Far Eastern Economic Review
BBC: Asia-Pacific Asia Daily Asia Sentinel ChannelNewsAsia AsiaSource News links,experts
    Australia    
Sydney Morning Herald Sydney Daily Telegraph ABC Australian Broadcasting The Australian  
    Japan    
Japan Times Daily Yomiuri Ashai Shimbun Kyodo News  
    China    
China Post Taiwan So. China Morning Post Hong Kong    
    South Korea    
JoonAng Ilbo Korea Times HanKyung Economic Daily    
    India    
Samachar news portal Hindustan Times Times of India Outlook India mag  
    Pakistan    
Daily Times News International Karachi Nation Online Lahore Dawn Karachi/Lahore  
    Indonesia    
Jakarta Post Antara      
    Other Asian States    
Daily Tribune Philippines Straits Times Singapore Bangkok Post Thailand    

Latin America
South America Daily Central America Daily The News Mexico CubaNet Alexandre Marinis columnist
BBC Americas Buenos Aires Herald Santiago Times Chile InfoBrazil weekly  
Africa
Africa Daily Africast East African Standard Kenya Sudan.net news Daily Mail & Guardian
BBC News: Africa All-Africa News This Day Online Nigeria iAfrica South Africa Independent South Africa

Still More News Sources
General News Sources Media Watch Environmental News Urban Legend? Reference Sources
North America Daily Daily Briefing on Media Earth Times Snopes (Urban Legends) RefDesk best general reference
Crisis Watch Journalism.org TerraNews Urban Legends at About.com Urban Dictionary up-to-date slang
Relief Web humanitarian aid news Maps Weather Lists of Online Newspapers Martindale Reference Center
Inside World Google Maps AccuWeather Kidon Media Links around the world Lipson's IR Scholarly Links Page
Photographs National Geographic Maps Weather.com Paperboy  links to papers  
WSJ Photo Blog Historical Maps Links Atlanta | Bos | Chi | LA | NY | SF | Seattle World Newspapers.com  
      Mondo Times media guide  

Other News Sources on this website
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Kudos: Several readers have improved this page with their suggestions. Thanks to Matt Atkins, Diwakar Choubey, Sandy Enders, Haider Ghaznavi, Jeffrey Hayes, and Jeff Norris (of the GeoPolitical Review) for telling me about their favorite sites.   Please send your ideas for news links to c-lipson@uchicago.edu

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