Markos Moulitsas alias "Kos" created Daily Kos in 2002, a time he describes as "dark days when an oppressive and war-crazed administration suppressed all dissent as unpatriotic and treasonous." Be careful what you wish for. With the Bush years now just a memory, Kos's blog has lost its mission, and its increasingly rudderless posts read like talking points from the Democratic National Committee.
TIME makes its second annual list of the best blogs in the world, spanning politics, housekeeping, astronomy and everything in between Tom McNichol