SPECIAL EDITION: Biden and Trump show us the promise and peril of presidential clemency.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Editor's note: We are off for President's Day today, but have a special edition featuring a guest writer today.
Core to our mission at Tangle is offering perspectives from influential and thoughtful voices from across the political spectrum. As we've grown, our ability to advance that mission has also grown, allowing us a broader reach and new ways to offer coverage of political news to our subscribers.
Today, we are pleased to publish a thoughtful essay from Jacob Sullum, senior editor at Reason, about President Joe Biden's and President Donald Trump's recent acts of clemency.
Jacob Sullum, a senior editor at Reason magazine, is the author of Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives, forthcoming from Prometheus Books.
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| 1:19.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent |
| 1:28.4 | thinking, and a little bit of our take. I am your host, editor Will Kayback, wishing you a happy |
| 1:33.7 | president's day. We're off from our normal newsletter today, but we'll be back in your inbox |
| 1:38.9 | tomorrow around noon, eastern, and a little bit later in the afternoon for the podcast. |
| 1:44.0 | However, today we have |
| 1:45.0 | something really special that we're excited to share with the Tangle audience. That is a contributed |
| 1:49.6 | piece from Reason Editor Jacob Sullum, and for a little bit of background on how this piece came to be, |
| 1:55.2 | one of our main goals headed into 2025 was to solicit some contributions from writers across |
| 2:00.2 | the political spectrum who aren't members |
| 2:02.1 | of Tangle staff, but who we cite in the newsletter and think are really insightful writers and |
| 2:07.1 | thinkers about animating issues in U.S. politics. So when we started to think about who would be a |
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