The Sunday — September 1
This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading.
How are we doing?
We’re always looking for reader feedback to inform and improve our processes, so we’re curious to hear what you all think about The Sunday newsletter. Which features are your favorite? Which can you do without? What would you like to see added? If you could help us out by taking two minutes to let us know, we’d really appreciate it.
What the left is doodling.
What the right is doodling.
Reader essay.
Last year, in one of our most engaging reader essays so far, we published a piece from Anonymous MD, a conservative transgender doctor arguing that gender care should be de-politicized and treated more purely as a medical issue. In that essay, our guest writer laid out what he saw as the political failures of both sides before describing the medical issues. After we re-ran the piece in a special edition on our top ten reader essays of the year, Anonymous MD wrote in to say he’d been re-working the piece and thought he had a better, more complete version of it, then asked if we’d be willing to publish it. After seeing how the piece centered his experiences more and downplayed the politicization, we thought it would be a beneficial addition to our series; and we think you’ll agree. You can read the full piece here.
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Reader review.
In this section, we’re including two comments from the same edition that critique our piece in two different ways. Both of today’s comments came from our edition on RFK Jr's Trump endorsement.