The Sunday — March 23

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 that we were significantly underrating Trump’s chances of victory, as prediction markets showed him with a much stronger likelihood to win than the polls. Following Trump’s decisive election, we continued our correspondence, and Jack shared a fascinating — and well reasoned — argument about why betting markets are far superior to polls or analysts at projecting outcomes in politics. For today’s reader essay, Max shares a historical perspective on these markets and makes the case for their positive value in our society. You can read the full piece here.

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Reader review.

In this section, we like to highlight reader comments that respond to our coverage from different angles. Today, we’re sharing a small sampling of comments from readers on our piece about the passage of the stopgap bill to fund the government.