Rising on Substack this week: World Politics

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

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Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

Drop Site News

911k followers · #1 World Politics Bestsellers

+31 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 85 in all

52 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Timothy Snyder

650k followers · #2 World Politics Bestsellers

+21 in 30 days · +3 in 7 days 108 in all

49 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Anne Applebaum

354k followers · #13 World Politics Bestsellers

+18 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 81 in all

30 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Glenn Diesen

68k followers · #69 World Politics Bestsellers

+17 in 30 days 55 in all

32 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Chris Hedges

284k followers · #5 World Politics Bestsellers

+16 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 69 in all

40 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Paul Kingsnorth

127k followers · #21 World Politics Bestsellers

+15 in 30 days 68 in all

46 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

484k followers · #8 World Politics Bestsellers

+13 in 30 days 85 in all

22 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Naomi Klein

229k followers · #64 World Politics Bestsellers

+13 in 30 days 68 in all

32 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Voice from Ukraine

32k followers · #4 World Politics Rising

+13 in 30 days 30 in all

24 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Dexter Ingram

8.6k followers · #96 World Politics Bestsellers

+13 in 30 days 52 in all

34 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Global GeoPolitics

55k followers

+12 in 30 days 51 in all

31 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Trita Parsi

58k followers · #78 World Politics Bestsellers

+11 in 30 days 54 in all

19 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live. Outlined weeks are incomplete: Substack lists only a publication's 50 newest recommenders, so for busy writers older weeks can't be counted, and a 30-day count marked + is a floor.