PREVIEW - The Friday Edition: Mailbag! Your questions and criticisms, our response.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
As part of our work at Tangle, we solicit reader questions about politics and our work every day in our newsletter. And every few months, so many interesting questions we want to answer pile up that we decide to tackle a bunch of them at once in a members-only reader mailbag. Today is one of those days.
We think these mailbags are a healthy exercise that not only helps us cycle through our stack of questions, but also allows us to critically examine some of our own writing and provide readers with more perspectives that help us fulfill our core mission.
As always, a hearty thank you to the many readers and listeners who write in with thoughtful questions or raise challenging criticisms that help us improve. We hope you enjoy today’s mailbag!
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| 0:35.2 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:44.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're doing a reader, listener mailbag. |
| 1:06.2 | So we solicit reader questions and listener questions about politics and our work every day in the |
| 1:11.9 | newsletter. And every few months, so many questions we want to answer pile up that we just take them |
| 1:16.9 | all at once in a member's only mailbag. So today is one of those days. It's not just going to be |
| 1:22.9 | me on the podcast as the team grows, which we've been talking a lot about recently. |
| 1:30.1 | We have more writers on staff, more thinkers on staff. |
| 1:32.5 | We have questions being addressed to people that aren't me. So you'll also hear Ari and Will and Lindsay and Audrey today on the podcast, which I'm really excited about. |
| 1:40.8 | Without much further ado, we should just jump right into it. |
| 1:49.7 | First up, we're going to answer a question from Terry in Springfield, Ohio. Terry said, |
| 1:54.9 | what did you think about Trump's foreign policy speech in the Middle East? It struck me as a |
| 1:59.4 | pretty big deal. Yes, Terry, like you, I struck me as a pretty big deal. Yes, Terry, like you, |
| 2:03.1 | I thought it was a pretty big deal, and I loved it, genuinely. If you were someone who didn't |
| 2:08.3 | watch it, I really highly recommend giving it a view or reading the transcript. It was the kind of |
| 2:13.6 | speech and worldview that Trump espoused in 2016 that I found really appealing. |
| 2:18.6 | Among other things, he insisted on building a path toward peace in the Middle East on trade rather |
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