Categories/World Politics
Top World Politics Substacks by Revenue
Public estimates for the highest-revenue world politics newsletters on Substack. Figures are rounded ranges, not exact totals.
| # | Publication | Author | Subs | Est. revenue | 30d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drop Site News | Drop Site News | ~816k | $2.0M – $3.4M / yr | Declining |
| 2 | Thinking about... | Timothy Snyder | ~454k | $900k – $1.5M / yr | Declining |
| 3 | Glenn Greenwald | Glenn Greenwald | ~307k | $630k – $1.2M / yr | Declining |
| 4 | Why It Matters | Alexander Vindman | ~332k | $460k – $860k / yr | Declining |
| 5 | Comment is Freed | Sam Freedman | ~93k | $430k – $810k / yr | Strong growth |
| 6 | The Chris Hedges Report | Chris Hedges | ~203k | $420k – $780k / yr | Strong growth |
| 7 | Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum | Anne Applebaum | ~189k | $370k – $690k / yr | Strong growth |
| 8 | ChinaTalk | Jordan Schneider | ~82k | $270k – $510k / yr | Strong growth |
| 9 | Lucid | Ruth Ben-Ghiat | ~209k | $270k – $490k / yr | Declining |
| 10 | Escalation Trap | Prof Robert Pape | ~43k | $200k – $380k / yr | Strong growth |
| 11 | Prof Robert Pape | Prof Robert Pape | ~38k | $190k – $350k / yr | Strong growth |
| 12 | Yascha Mounk | Yascha Mounk | ~120k | $180k – $340k / yr | Declining |
| 13 | How to Survive the Broligarchy | Carole Cadwalladr | ~124k | $180k – $340k / yr | Mostly flat |
| 14 | Dominic Cummings substack | Dominic Cummings | ~74k | $150k – $290k / yr | Mostly flat |
| 15 | Konstantin Kisin | Konstantin Kisin | ~117k | $150k – $290k / yr | Strong growth |
| 16 | The Kākā by Bernard Hickey | Bernard Hickey | ~28k | $150k – $290k / yr | Strong growth |
| 17 | Matt Goodwin | Matt Goodwin | ~87k | $150k – $290k / yr | Mostly flat |
| 18 | Andrew Fox’s Substack | Andrew Fox | ~25k | $140k – $260k / yr | Declining |
| 19 | From The Writer's Cabin | From the Writer's Cabin | ~20k | $130k – $250k / yr | Strong growth |
| 20 | The Abbey of Misrule | Paul Kingsnorth | ~85k | $130k – $250k / yr | Mostly flat |
| 21 | Real Scott Ritter | Scott Ritter | ~75k | $130k – $250k / yr | Mostly flat |
| 22 | Edgerunner | Edgerunner | ~5.0k | $120k – $220k / yr | Mostly flat |
| 23 | Simplicius's Garden of Knowledge | Simplicius | ~57k | $120k – $220k / yr | Mostly flat |
| 24 | Arnaud Bertrand | Arnaud Bertrand | ~37k | $120k – $220k / yr | Mostly flat |
| 25 | The Will Hayward Newsletter | Will Hayward | ~15k | $110k – $210k / yr | Strong growth |
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