PREVIEW: The Friday Edition. - The best of your best.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The Tangle staff picks our favorite reader essays.
Finally, an update.
If this list excluded your personal favorite reader essay, we hope you’ll share that piece in the comments. And once you’re in the comments section, you may notice some changes.
After a lot of demand from our readers, and after a lot of work with (and mostly by) our publication platform, Ghost, we’re thrilled to announce several new commenting features! Comment replies now nest more easily, helping you keep track of conversations. You can also now downvote comments that you think violate our commenting guidelines.
To read more about these changes, you can check out our FAQ page. And to experience them yourself, comment below!
Our next event!
Today, I’m pleased to announce that we are coming to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, on June 13 and 14 for a special VIP dinner and a live taping of our weekly podcast, Suspension of the Rules. Tickets are on sale now! Why Berkeley Springs?
- It’s an American gem. Incorporated in 1776, history abounds — George Washington used to visit with his ill brother, who believed the springs could improve his health. Now, it’s known for its greenery, spas, and resorts.
- Speaking of history, we’ll be recording live inside the historicStar Theatre.
- Berkeley Springs is just a few hours from Washington, D.C.; Pittsburgh; Philly; Maryland; New Jersey; Ohio; and even parts of Virginia and North Carolina. If you’re looking for a summer weekend getaway, this is it!
- Right now, this is the only live event on our schedule. We’re hoping to hold a few more this year — but for now, it’s the only one we can guarantee!
- Most of the Tangle team will be in attendance, which is unique. Unlike past events where it’s been just me and a few others, this is shaping up to be an opportunity to meet and interact with the full team.
We have already sold over half of our VIP tickets, and general admission tickets are going fast. This is a small theater, so to secure your tickets before a sellout, you should hop on it now!
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This podcast was written by: Tangle Staff and audio edited and mixed by Dewey Thomas. Music for the podcast was produced by Diet 75 and Jon Lall.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:12.5 | Good morning. Good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place where we get |
| 0:22.9 | views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. |
| 0:27.9 | This is Tangle's managing editor, R.A. We're whitesman with a bit of a different feature for our Friday |
| 0:33.4 | podcast. Today, we're introducing our 10 favorite Tangle reader essays, which is something |
| 0:40.0 | that I think some of you might not even be aware of. Every Sunday, we publish a subscriber-only |
| 0:45.5 | Sunday newsletter that features things like our favorites from across the internet, things that we |
| 0:51.6 | are posting on our social media channels, as well as |
| 0:55.0 | recaps of what we published this week in the daily newsletter, questions and answers from readers, |
| 1:01.1 | and a bunch of other fun stuff that you would expect from a Sunday newspaper. |
| 1:05.5 | One of the things that we've been featuring in that newsletter is a reader essay. |
| 1:10.5 | That's where we have anybody from |
| 1:12.6 | the tango audience submit their personal story, experience they had some local issue. We edit it, |
| 1:18.6 | consider it for publication, and we send it out to our readers and our subscribers and our Sunday |
| 1:23.2 | newsletter. These always look very different from what we publish during the week, and they always |
| 1:29.8 | look different from each other, too. Over the years, since we've been publishing reader essays, |
| 1:34.9 | we've gotten this great kaleidoscopic archive built up over time from one reader essay a week |
| 1:41.6 | for the past two and a half years or so. We really only have one rule |
| 1:45.9 | with reader essays. They have to be personal. Everybody who submitted something has submitted |
| 1:50.5 | something about their lives and from their perspectives which make these unique offerings. |
| 1:55.6 | If it's something that you're interested in submitting, we're going to put a link to how to |
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