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PREVIEW - The Friday Edition: Everything we got right and wrong in 2024.

Tangle

Isaac Saul

International News, Politics, Election, Nonpartisan, Us Politics, Local News, News Commentary, Biden, Us Senate, Independent, Us News, Congress, Trump, News, Us House Of Representatives

4.8672 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In my small attempt to live my values, I like to dedicate the first Friday edition of every new year to grading some of my previous writing. Here’s our process: About two months ago, I told my team to start looking through our archives and flag instances where we took a strong position on a defining story in the past year. I also sorted through reader criticisms, feedback, and suggestions about articles to revisit.


Then, we went back to evaluate that writing and settled on a grade for how we did.


We published over 200 newsletters last year, so we don’t grade every single one. Instead, we focused on newsletters covering the biggest stories of 2024 — those that garnered the most public attention and reader feedback.


I'm going to share with you key excerpts from my writing, a brief "reflection," and then a grade on the A-to-F scale (that my editors and I have agreed on). A lot of this, obviously, is subjective. So as always, we welcome your feedback.


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From executive producer Isaac Saul,

1:08.8

this is Tangle. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast,

1:25.0

the place we get views from across the political spectrum,

1:32.6

some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be reviewing the things that we got right and wrong in 2024.

1:40.4

So every day in Tangle in this podcast and in our newsletter, I do my best to present a wide range of views on U.S. politics.

1:48.3

And obviously, as you guys know, I give my take, share my own perspective on those topics.

1:53.8

I never try to be the authoritative voice on something or pretend that I'm the arbiter of truth.

2:00.0

Though obviously, as I'm sure many of you

2:01.7

have noticed, sometimes I do feel strongly about things and I do try to persuade you, our listeners

2:06.9

and readers, of a perspective that I have. Of course, if you spend a whole year talking about politics

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