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Media List 100 Newsletters

The 100 newsletters at the top of our Fall 2026 ranking, out of 5,000 honorees. Letters from an American is number one.

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Media List 100 Newsletters, Fall 2026

#	Honoree	Subscribers	Award
1	Letters from an American By Heather Cox Richardson	3M+	Media List 100
2	Lenny's Newsletter By Lenny Rachitsky	1.2M+	Media List 100
3	Robert Reich By Robert Reich	1.1M+	Media List 100
4	The Pragmatic Engineer By Gergely Orosz	1.1M+	Media List 100
5	Across the Movie Aisle By Sonny Bunch	1M+	Media List 100
6	To Live Is To Maneuver By Joshua Tait	1M+	Media List 100
7	Citizen Cohn By Jonathan Cohn	1M+	Media List 100
8	Mark Hertling By Mark Hertling	1M+	Media List 100
9	Catherine Rampell By Catherine Rampell	1M+	Media List 100
10	Will Sommer By Will Sommer	1M+	Media List 100
11	Brendan Hartnett By Brendan Hartnett	1M+	Media List 100
12	Cathy Young By Cathy Young	1M+	Media List 100
13	Ansley Skipper By Ansley Skipper	See	Media List 100
14	Adrian Carrasquillo By Adrian Carrasquillo	1M+	Media List 100
15	Subtweet Newsletter By Jim Swift	1M+	Media List 100
16	The Bulwark By The Bulwark	1M+	Media List 100
17	Ryan Grim By Ryan Grim	979K+	Media List 100
18	Meidas+ By MeidasTouch Network	886K+	Media List 100
19	Jeremy Scahill By Jeremy Scahill	831K+	Media List 100
20	Murtaza Hussain By Murtaza Hussain	822K+	Media List 100
21	Drop Site News By Drop Site News	818K+	Media List 100
22	News to Nobody By Nausicaa Renner	818K+	Media List 100
23	Better World By Prem Thakker	714K+	Media List 100
24	John Harwood By John Harwood	713K+	Media List 100
25	Rula Jebreal By Rula Jebreal	712K+	Media List 100
26	Asawin Suebsaeng By Asawin Suebsaeng	711K+	Media List 100
27	Andrew Perez By Andrew Perez	711K+	Media List 100
28	Bassem Youssef By Bassem Youssef	711K+	Media List 100
29	The Borowitz Report By Andy Borowitz	618K+	Media List 100
30	Paul Krugman By Paul Krugman	618K+	Media List 100
31	Brian Tyler Cohen By Brian Tyler Cohen	594K+	Media List 100
32	Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance By Joyce Vance	594K+	Media List 100
33	What To Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking By Caroline Chambers	588K+	Media List 100
34	Popular Information By Judd Legum	574K+	Media List 100
35	Katie Phang By Katie Phang	560K+	Media List 100
36	Steady By Dan Rather	541K+	Media List 100
37	Adam Kinzinger By Adam Kinzinger	494K+	Media List 100
38	April Ryan By April Ryan	481K+	Media List 100
39	Meredith Blake By Meredith Blake	475K+	Media List 100
40	The Contrarian By The Contrarian	474K+	Media List 100
41	julia payne By julia payne	474K+	Media List 100
42	Noahpinion By Noah Smith	458K+	Media List 100
43	Thinking about... By Timothy Snyder	457K+	Media List 100
44	Racket News By Matt Taibbi	440K+	Media List 100
45	The Meaning of This By Emily Bivens	440K+	Media List 100
46	Rick Wilson’s Against All Enemies By Rick Wilson	438K+	Media List 100
47	Your Local Epidemiologist By Katelyn Jetelina	436K+	Media List 100
48	The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump By Mary L Trump	431K+	Media List 100
49	Your Local Epidemiologist in California By The YLE Admin Team	429K+	Media List 100
50	The Message Box By Dan Pfeiffer	425K+	Media List 100
51	Doomberg By Doomberg	388K+	Media List 100
52	The Forgotten Side of Medicine By A Midwestern Doctor	373K+	Media List 100
53	Malone News By Dr. Robert W. Malone	347K+	Media List 100
54	Cassandra Unchained By Michael Burry	335K+	Media List 100
55	Frank Figliuzzi By Frank Figliuzzi	332K+	Media List 100
56	Silver Bulletin By Nate Silver	331K+	Media List 100
57	Story Club with George Saunders By George Saunders	327K+	Media List 100
58	The Preamble By The Preamble	321K+	Media List 100
59	Dr. Mercola's Censored Library (Private Membership) By Dr. Joseph Mercola	319K+	Media List 100
60	Bobby Jones By Bobby Jones	317K+	Media List 100
61	Stuart Stevens By Stuart Stevens	316K+	Media List 100
62	It's the democracy, stupid By Edwin Eisendrath	316K+	Media List 100
63	Trippi Takes By Joe Trippi	315K+	Media List 100
64	Lincoln Square By Lincoln Square	314K+	Media List 100
65	Sam Osterhout By Sam Osterhout	314K+	Media List 100
66	Susan J. Demas By Susan J. Demas	314K+	Media List 100
67	Glenn Greenwald By Glenn Greenwald	309K+	Media List 100
68	Tommy Christopher By Tommy Christopher	306K+	Media List 100
69	The Jim Acosta Show By Jim Acosta	305K+	Media List 100
70	The Huckabee Post By Huckabee Post	301K+	Media List 100
71	Money with Katie By Katie Gatti Tassin	285K+	Media List 100
72	The Capitalist By Matthew Miller	1.6M+	Media List 100
73	Public Notice By Aaron Rupar	270K+	Media List 100
74	How to AI By Ruben Hassid	960K+	Media List 100
75	Michael Moore By Michael Moore	841K+	Media List 100
76	✿ shit you should care about ✿ By shit you should care about	770K+	Media List 100
77	Coco Larkin Cooks By Corre Larkin	247K+	Media List 100
78	Homeward By Amanda Hesser	612K+	Media List 100
79	Shaun King's Substack By Shaun King	580K+	Media List 100
80	The Dworkin Report By Scott Dworkin	238K+	Media List 100
81	Analyzing Good Businesses By Compounding Quality	553K+	Media List 100
82	The Warning with Steve Schmidt By Steve Schmidt	237K+	Media List 100
83	David Shuster By David Shuster	515K+	Media List 100
84	NYT Pitchbot By NYT Pitchbot	514K+	Media List 100
85	Blue Amp Media By Cliff Schecter	513K+	Media List 100
86	One Useful Thing By Ethan Mollick	479K+	Media List 100
87	Unreported Truths By Alex Berenson	223K+	Media List 100
88	House Inhabit By Jessica Reed Kraus	440K+	Media List 100
89	The Hartmann Report By Thom Hartmann	214K+	Media List 100
90	Sinocism By Bill Bishop	427K+	Media List 100
91	Prof G Media By Prof G Media	424K+	Media List 100
92	Mia Silverio By Mia Silverio	424K+	Media List 100
93	Letters from the Old World By Evan Amato	385K+	Media List 100
94	The Culturist By The Culturist	381K+	Media List 100
95	Veeraj’s Substack By Veeraj Kantilal Gadda	371K+	Media List 100
96	Stoic Wisdoms By Stoic Wisdoms	370K+	Media List 100
97	Olivia of Troye By Olivia of Troye	354K+	Media List 100
98	Why It Matters By Alexander Vindman	351K+	Media List 100
99	Slow Boring By Matthew Yglesias	201K+	Media List 100
100	Big Salad By Joanna Goddard	201K+	Media List 100

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