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:
- a lack of investigative journalism and progressive op-eds in mainstream media
- a blossoming of independent, niche publications (increasingly in the 2020’s on Substack)
- 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 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 liberal, progressive, and social democratic – with a smattering of libertarian, democratic socialist, and neoliberal sources.
I limit the number of publications to force myself to be selective, but many can’t be included due to issues with, or the absence of, RSS feeds. Larger, high-volume publications aren’t included as they are widely known and crowd out smaller publications. If you have suggestions, feel free to reach out to me at yoshi tryba at the google.
A special thanks to Samantha Todd for building the mobile apps, Kristina Lembesis for design, Thomas Lasseau for the logo, William Dawley for past research, and Vineet Sinha with Implicit for supporting earlier versions of LeftTimes.
