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24 Mar 2025 3 minute read

Tangle takes a spring break.

Plus, an interview with Semafor's Dave Weigel.

23 Mar 2025 10 minute read

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. Reader essay. In the months leading up to the election, Jack Such wrote into Tangle to suggest

The Sunday

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaking in 2019. Image: Gage Skidmore

21 Mar 2025 6 minute read

Yes, I'd like to briefly defend Gavin Newsom.

California's governor is being pilloried for all the wrong reasons.

Gavin Newsom

Destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip on March 18, 2025. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)

20 Mar 2025 18 minute read

The war in Gaza resumes.

Plus, could the government layoffs destabilize the economy?

Inmates at El Salvador's 'Terrorism Confinement Center' (CECOT). (Photo by Press Secretary Of The Presidency Of El Salvador via Getty Images)

19 Mar 2025 19 minute read

Trump, El Salvador, and the Alien Enemies Act.

Who got deported, where did they go, and why?

Donald Trump

The USS Harry S. Truman departing Greece | U.S. Navy photo by Paul Farley

18 Mar 2025 18 minute read

Trump strikes the Houthis.

Plus, did we miss a good argument for deporting Mahmoud Khalil?

Yemen

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer | wikimedia commons

17 Mar 2025 18 minute read

Democrats split after short-term funding bill passes.

Plus, is the Tangle audience skewing left?

Senate

16 Mar 2025 9 minute read

The Sunday — March 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. Photo by Judy Beth Morris / Unsplash In an undergraduate class, Max and other students were

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