Substacks recommended by Quaid Saifee | Monthly Musings: A Curated Reading List

Recommended by Quaid Saifee

Zeteo is a new media organization that seeks to answer the questions that really matter, while always striving for the truth. Founded by Mehdi Hasan, Zeteo is a movement for media accountability, unfiltered news and bold opinions.

Drop Site News

Independent news on politics and war

One Useful Thing

By Ethan Mollick

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

I enjoy Ethan's newsletter, it is a must read if you want to know what's going on in the field of Generative AI. I refer to his writing in my monthly newsletter at substack quaid.substack.com.

- Quaid Saifee

Michael Moore

I was born in Flint, Michigan and raised on a dirt street by loving parents, two sisters and a lot of Green Giant in a can.

One of the only few filmmakers I admire.

- Quaid Saifee

The Beinart Notebook

By Peter Beinart

A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.

Sad Is the Brand

By Samina

For those who love to break their own heart.

I enjoy my daughter Samina's writing.

- Quaid Saifee

The India Cable

The one newsletter you need. Period. Curated daily by the editors of The Wire

The Chris Hedges Report

By Chris Hedges

Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society.

Amuzing Muzings

By Muzammil Ahmed

Cartoons, Essays and Rants from an Old Brown Guy

Exponential View

By Azeem Azhar

AI analysis worth reading

Creative Differences

By Donald Farmer

Writing about the practice and paradoxes of data analytics, innovation and strategy with inevitable coverage of AI and digressions in philosophy, knitting and reading.

Rana Ayyub's Newsletter

Resilient journalism undeterred in the face of autocratic power; independent, humane, accessible and radically empathetic.