Nov 3, 2024

The Sunday — November 3

A hearty welcome to all our new readers who joined us after hearing our spot on “This American Life!” 

This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading. Our standard daily newsletter will be hitting your inbox tomorrow at 12pm ET/9am PT.

What the right is doodling.

Steve Kelley | Creators Syndicate
Steve Kelley | Creators Syndicate

What the left is doodling.

Mike Luckovich | Creators Syndicate
Mike Luckovich | Creators Syndicate

Reader essay.

Photo by Mick Haupt / Unsplash
Photo by Mick Haupt / Unsplash

You may have heard about it, but there’s an election this week. You also may have already participated in it. In case you have yet to, and are considering potentially sitting this one out, we wanted to provide you with one more perspective about why you should cast a vote in this election. Reader Kaila Colbin was a Florida resident in 2000 — she did not vote. She urges you to heed her hard-learned lesson here.

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Reader review.

In this section, we like to feature two comments from the same edition that critique our coverage in two different ways. In our edition on national newspapers deciding not to endorse, two readers bring forward different problems with endorsements.