Thoughtful articles, videos, and podcasts
LeftTimes is an aggregator app/website pulling from 200+ progressive publications - spanning policy, news, and culture. This is the monthly newsletter sharing some of the top articles, videos, and podcasts every month.
Philosophy, methodology, and bias
LeftTimes is led and curated by Yoshi Tryba. I am a product manager working in education technology. I fervently believe in the power of learning and knowledge to transform the world.
I first created LeftTimes in 2017 in response to three trends: 1. a lack of investigative journalism and progressive op-eds in mainstream media 2. a blossoming of independent, niche publications, and 3. the tendency of social media algorithms to produce information bubbles filled with click-bait rather than informative content from mixed perspectives.
LeftTimes is intended to augment a mainstream news diet (NYT, FT, WaPo, WSJ, etc.) with in-depth analyses, investigative journalism, editorials, and research from a breadth of (valid) perspectives. Ideologically, I see green social liberalism as the socioeconomic system upon which the next (r)evolutions of society must be built. This perspective is reflected in the distribution of publications included – being predominantly progressive, liberal, social democratic, and democratic socialist – with a smattering of communist, anarchist, libertarian, and neoliberal sources.
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