Aug 25, 2024

The Sunday — August 25

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.

Gary Varvel | Creators Syndicate
Gary Varvel | Creators Syndicate

What the left is doodling.

Andy Marlette | Creators Syndicate
Andy Marlette | Creators Syndicate

Reader essay.

Seal of the Minnesota National Guard | wikimedia commons
Seal of the Minnesota National Guard | wikimedia commons

Last week, we wrote about Tim Walz’s military record. Then we got an interesting email from Zach Juhnke, a reader who served in the Minnesota National Guard at the same time Walz did. Zach had a different perspective about which things Walz said or did that mattered to him as an Iraq War veteran, and we thought it would be best to share his perspective with everyone. You can read Zach’s piece here.

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Reader review.

We’re trying something different in this section today: quoting two comments from the same edition that critique our piece in two different ways. Both these comments came from our edition on Kamala Harris’s price-gouging proposal