Donald Trump
Trump opens peace talks with Putin.
The Trump administration makes its first moves in negotiating the end of the Ukraine-Russia war.
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Jacob Sullum
SPECIAL EDITION: Biden and Trump show us the promise and peril of presidential clemency.
A guest essay from Reason's Jacob Sullum
The Sunday
The Sunday — February 16
This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading. What the left is doodling. What the right is doodling. Reader essay. As many readers know, we were featured in a This American Life episode last year
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My Tangled Heart
By Anonymous My boyfriend and I being together is a modern day phenomenon. In any other time period, our love would have been forbidden or impossible — I am a privileged white girl from coastal California; he is the son of a bankrupted textile factory owner from central India. Of course, the only
Religion
Toward more perfect unions.
Today's Friday Edition was written by Tangle Associate Editor Sophia Downs. Editor’s note: Along with today’s Friday edition, we’re releasing a special podcast for Valentine’s Day: a conversation between Executive Editor Isaac Saul and his wife, Phoebe. We’ll be releasing the episode later today,
Eric Adams
The case against Eric Adams is dismissed.
Is the DOJ dismissing a political case, or playing politics itself?
CFPB
Defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Plus, is Tangle struggling to cover the Trump administration?
Transgender issues
Trump blocks trans women from women's sports.
We get into the debate over the recent executive order.
Elon Musk
The legal fight over DOGE's budget cuts.
Plus, how does Tangle decide who's on the right and left?
The Sunday
The Sunday — February 9
This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading. What the right is doodling. What the left is doodling. What just happened. Here are a few stories that have broken since our last newsletter on Thursday.
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We Are What We Think
By Valerie Stunning This piece has been lightly edited from its original version, which originally Valerie Stunning originally published on her site in two parts. Countless first responders, firefighters, search and rescue workers, EMT’s, law enforcement officers, ER nurses and doctors, military
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