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.
A mental health crisis plagues American youth, and no shortage of reasons have been offered to explain it: adjusting to life during the pandemic, fear of a catastrophic climate future, academic pressure, social media, etc. Recent high-school graduate Elias Leventhal has a different theory, though he admits he may seem like an unlikely person to deliver it. The piece is Elias’s second to be featured in Tangle, and his writing is sure to make you stop and think. 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 response to our coverage of the Venezuela elections, commenter JW had a lot to add about the fairness of U.S. elections (and their coverage in the media):