PREVIEW - The Friday Edition - Your questions, answered. Enjoy!
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
An essential part of Tangle is engaging with readers — through live events, email exchanges, and now in social channels like Reddit and our new texting platform, Subtext. But something we’ve done since the beginning is answer a reader question in our main newsletter. Over time, we’ve gotten more questions than we can answer — but many of the questions that haven’t made it into the daily newsletter or podcast are still worth answering.
So we devote an occasional Friday edition to getting to the questions we didn’t have the space to answer. A lot of these questions allow us to get into more detail and cover ground we might not cover in the daily newsletter, so we love the opportunity to dig in and go deep. Today, the whole Tangle editorial team is fielding your questions on topics ranging from abortion to immigration to our editorial standards. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | Tangle. |
| 0:09.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place |
| 0:23.1 | we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit |
| 0:27.1 | of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and we have a special edition for you today. We're doing |
| 0:32.0 | a listener mailbag. This is an opportunity to answer a ton of questions all in one episode because we get a lot |
| 0:41.7 | of these questions. Obviously, we answer a reader and listener questions in every podcast and |
| 0:46.8 | every newsletter on a daily basis, but there's a lot of you guys. So they pile up. And every now and |
| 0:51.8 | then, you know, once every couple months or whatever we try and do a |
| 0:55.5 | whole addition just dedicated to responding to questions from our audience some of them are |
| 1:01.6 | criticism some of them are questions about stuff we've covered some of them are questions about |
| 1:05.9 | stuff we haven't covered or trying to clarify thoughts that were published in the podcast or the newsletter. |
| 1:12.3 | So this is an opportunity to do that. We're going to have a lot of voices on the show today. |
| 1:17.6 | Myself, Ari, Will, Audrey, Lindsay, and Russell are all answering some questions that came in. |
| 1:24.2 | We get a lot of questions. So like I said, we try and divide and conquer them. So |
| 1:29.0 | it should be a pretty good show. As a reminder, you'll get a free preview of this if you are a |
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| 1:57.2 | $59 for a podcast membership for the year, which gets you ad-free and members-only podcasts. And it is a little bit more expensive about $99 for a bundle, which gets you the newsletter and the podcast together. All right. With that, I'm going to jump right into the first questions that I got. |
| 2:26.7 | This is managing editor Ari Weitzman, reading this question, which comes from Ann from Missoula, Montana. Anne asks, when researching a new story to write a my take, how do you |
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