The Sunday — August 18

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.

Last week, we published a piece where we took a rare stand: in favor of primary reform. We highlighted a number of potential reforms, went through their pros and cons, and ultimately endorsed the ones we thought would be most likely to work. However, one of our readers, Bill Merritt, wanted to point out the way reforms could potentially bring us backwards. Highlighting the case of backwards-bicycle-riding former Georgia governor Lester Maddox, Merritt warns about a potential danger of open primaries. You can read the full piece here.

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Reader review.

In this section, we like to include reader responses that counter or challenge opinions we publish in the newsletter. In a comment on edition on Tim Walz's statements about his military service, commenter Eric Zepp took a critical stance:

I've almost uniformly found that when it comes to military service, those who did the most say the least.

Yet inflating one's experience and taking credit for things you didn't do while denying things you did is kinda politics 101, isn't it?