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10 best movies of 2026

Joice — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:17:00 GMT

What are the best movies you’ve seen so far? It’s July!

On everyone’s mind is the biggest epic of 2020:

New on Substack: Subscriber Perks, saved Notes, scheduled Chats, MCP, redesigned podcast player, and more

Joice — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:04:34 GMT

Whether you’re spending your Substack summer tinkering with your existing newsletter or podcast or launching your first one, we’re shipping features that make it easier to publish, customize, and distribute your work, and engage with your audience. We look forward to hearing what’s most useful and what you want more of. Here’s the latest.

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Who’s with W. Kamau Bell?

Joice — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:02:21 GMT

has lived many different lives as a host and comedian: one of them centered on the singular conviction that Denzel Washington Is the Greatest Actor of All Time Period, another in service of an institution (the ACLU’s At Liberty), another at the helm of several documentaries and seven seasons anchoring CNN’s prime-time Sunday night slot with his show Uni…

Introducing country leaderboards and post translations

Joice — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:02:30 GMT

Illustration credit: Joro Chen, Brand Designer at Substack

It can be hard to put your finger on what makes a Substack get-together so memorable. The depth of conversation? For sure. The variety of people in one space? Absolutely. But mainly I think it’s the fact that Substack writers and creators have the same shared notion that culture thrives when ever…

Open Tab: Hunter Harris

Joice — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:57:43 GMT

is the creator of , the twice-weekly Substack newsletter where she takes a forensic lens to our culture’s obsessions and her own. She says she and her audience of nearly 200,000 subscribers share the same “disease”—insatiability—and that they’re bonded by a specific tunnel vision: her willingness to write a dozen pieces about A Star Is Born or spend tim…

A business model that works for creators

Joice — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:00:46 GMT

Illustration credit: Joro Chen, Brand Designer at Substack

Today we’re introducing the next phase of Substack’s native sponsorships program, with an inaugural cohort of flagship partners who are collectively investing millions of dollars into creators on Substack. If you are a Substack bestseller who is interested in participating and shaping the program…

Open Tab: Lachlan Cartwright

Joice — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:01:21 GMT

In this week’s Open Tab, Australian-born, New York–based muckraker Lachlan Cartwright sat down with Substack co-founder to walk through two decades covering media, money, and power—from The Sun and the New York Post to executive editor of the National Enquirer, where he went from breaking news to becoming an anonymous source in one of the biggest politi…

Open Tab: Joanna Coles

Joice — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:06:47 GMT

has spent her formidable career at the center of media: London’s Fleet Street in the ’80s, New York magazine, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, and eventually the chief content officer role overseeing Hearst’s entire global magazine portfolio. She knows intimately what legacy media organizations have looked like at every stage of their life cycle and spent ye…

Introducing Reply Rules

Joice — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:02:00 GMT

Reply Rules set by Le Grove, Entertaining with Beth, Sherry Ning, and Ministry of Pop Culture.

Since its founding, Substack has sought to create the best possible conditions for cultures of many varieties to flourish online. Doing so often involves difficult trade-offs, but on top of our core model—where we only earn when writers, artists, journalists, m…

The independent writer’s advantage in the age of AI

Joice — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:40:59 GMT

publishes jasmi.news, where she interviews AI researchers, eavesdrops at San Francisco house parties, and reports what she calls “an anthropology of disruption”—on-the-ground dispatches from how frontier technology is changing culture. At Substack’s recent Once and Future Media Forum, Jasmine shared her perspective on the comparative advantages she and …

Open Tab: Kevin Kelly

Joice — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:02:52 GMT

We sat down with writer, editor, photographer, and futurist at the Interval at Long Now in San Francisco’s Fort Mason. Part cocktail bar, part science-centric museum to the future, the Interval houses an eight-foot-tall model of the solar system, artwork by the musician Brian Eno, and prototypes for the Long Now Foundation’s most ambitious project: a cl…

My Internet: Kate Lindsay

Joice — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:57:41 GMT

Twice a month, internet-culture publication logs on with someone extremely online and asks them nearly the same set of questions: What memes are making you laugh? Where do you get your news? Do you text people voice notes? The series is called My Internet, and it’s one of several recurring formats that founders and have built since being laid off and st…

Open Tab: Ashlee Vance

Joice — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:16:01 GMT

In episode 3 of Open Tab, Substack co-founder shared a few rounds with filmmaker and tech journalist at Fred’s Place, a longtime neighborhood dive in Mountain View just minutes from where the technology that gave Silicon Valley its name was born. After two decades covering tech for major publications, Ashlee circled the globe for Hello World, Bloomberg’…

Scott Galloway had the audience. Here’s what he came for.

Joice — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:01:12 GMT

is a professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, a serial entrepreneur, and, for the past decade, a writer, podcaster and media founder. No Mercy / No Malice, the weekly newsletter he started as a testing ground for book chapters, now goes out to more than 400,000 subscribers, and his media business, , generates roughly $20 million a year in…

Open Tab: Esther Perel

Joice — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:04:34 GMT

The psychotherapy room is, by design, one of the most private spaces in human life, but has devoted much of her career to opening the door. Addressing relationships, cross-cultural psychology, and the contours of belonging, she brought therapeutic ideas out into the world through a body of work that spans talks, books, and her hit podcast Where Should W…

Open Tab: Emily Sundberg

Joice — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:02:15 GMT

For our inaugural episode of Open Tab, we knew we wanted to speak with . Emily’s the founder and daily writer of , a business, tech, and culture newsletter that’s been described as “must-read (and much-read).” She publishes almost every weekday— something like 250 sends a year—covering everything from DTC darlings and media industry churn to New York ho…

Introducing Open Tab

Joice — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:38:26 GMT

Most of what we hear from media insiders is a story of decline: collapsing economics, algorithmic chaos, layoffs, and LLMs nipping at journalists’ heels. But a new class of independent media founders is creating powerful businesses around their own work and direct relationships with readers, listeners, and viewers—highly-profitable, multi-format, and bu…

Three models for building community for your podcast

Joice — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:59:16 GMT

Great podcasts have loyal communities: the people who show up for every episode drop, create a dedicated group chat with their friends, or scour the internet looking for takes. We’ve worked directly with hundreds of podcast creators to build tools that allow them to own and grow these communities on Substack—whether or not they’re using the platform as …

Inside Lena Dunham’s Substack press tour

Joice — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:08:42 GMT

For most of the past decade, has been offline: no Instagram, no scrolling, with a trusted collaborator managing her digital presence. Last year, she and that collaborator—strategist —decided to make an exception, and Lena got her Substack login. “It was like when I graduated from rehab,” Lena told us. “Very adult.”

Since then, Lena’s become increasingly …

The global ideas exchange

Joice — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:03:20 GMT

Who changed your life today? Who stretched your way of seeing the universe? Who challenged you to think deeper about the culture around you, or to question the state of the political world? Who introduced you to a new song, a brand-new way of cooking, or even a new rose to plant in your garden? If you’ve been on Substack for a while, my hope is you’ve f…