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On Friday, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents  raided  the Maryland home and Washington, D.C. office of John Bolton, former national security adviser during President Donald Trump’s first term. According to a senior U.S. official, the search  was connected  to an investigation into Bolton’s possible use of a private email server to share classified documents with his...

Last week, we released a documentary on the  72 hours we spent with Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) . Immediately, questions started coming in about what happened behind the scenes — what you didn’t see on camera, how the shoot came together, and what our impressions were about different elements of what we saw.  We wanted to respond to those questions, and also follow up on the story since...

It's a new day and a new name for the Sunday podcast. Literally. We are moving our fan favorite podcast from Sundays to Fridays, and giving it a new name. SUSPENSION OF THE RULES. Isaac, Ari, and Kmele talk the latest with Trump, Putin and Zelensky. They also get into it about a very interesting report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Lastly, they pivot to a deep discussion about medical...

On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt  confirmed  reports that the Trump administration is working on a deal with Intel that would grant the U.S. government a 10% stake in the computer technology company. The possible agreement,  first reported  on August 14,  may involve converting roughly $10.86 billion in federal grants issued to Intel during the Bide...

In a social media post last Monday, August 11, President Donald Trump  announced  that he was nominating economist E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Earlier this month, Trump  fired  the previous commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, after the agency released a weaker-than-expected July jobs report and revised May's and June's numbers downwards.  Tangle L...

On August 11, President Donald Trump issued a  memorandum  mobilizing the District of Columbia National Guard to Washington, D.C. and an  executive order  placing the city’s police department under federal control. Approximately 800 D.C. National Guard troops were  deployed  to the city after the announcements. The president said he intended to restore public safety i...

On Friday, President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin  met  face-to-face for the first time in Trump’s second term at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss the future of the war in Ukraine. While Trump  described  the meeting as “productive,” he shared minimal details from the discussions, and the White House has not announced any new...

It's a new day and a new name for the Sunday podcast. Literally. We are moving our fan favorite podcast from Sundays to Fridays, and giving it a new name. SUSPENSION OF THE RULES. Isaac, Ari, and Kmele talk about the rebrand and the challenges in coming up with a good podcast name. They also discuss the intricacies of gerrymandering and its implications on the political landscape, and the role of...

On July 25, French President Emmanuel Macron  said  France will formally recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September. The next week, on July 30, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer  said  Britain will also recognize a Palestinian state unless “the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza, agree to a...

Today, we’re releasing Isaac’s interview with economist Noah Smith; it’s the third time Noah has sat down for an interview with Tangle, and it’s a fascinating conversation on the outlook for the U.S. debt and deficit in the wake of the One Big Beautiful Bill becoming law. By the way: If you are not yet a podcast member, and you want to upgrade your newsletter subscription plan to include a podcast...

On Tuesday, July 29, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin  released  the agency’s proposal to rescind a determination that previous administrations had used to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Both the Obama and Biden administrations used the determination, called  the endangerment finding , to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fo...

On Sunday, a group of Democratic lawmakers in Texas  left the state  to deny the Republican-controlled state House the quorum necessary to vote on a new congressional map designed to give the GOP five additional seats in the U.S. House next year. In late July, President Donald Trump  spearheaded  the plan to redraw Texas’s Congressional map, years in advance of the typical dece...

On Friday, President Donald Trump  fired  the commissioner of labor statistics for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Erika McEntarfer, after the agency released a lower-than-expected July jobs report and revised May's and June's numbers downwards. The BLS  reported  that nonfarm payrolls increased by 73,000 in July, below Dow Jones’s  estimated gain  of 100,000 jo...

In this episode, Isaac, Ari and Kmele talk about Sydney Sweeney and her wonderful jeans, the stock trading ban, the latest on the Trump economy and some of the fractures in MAGA world with whats going down in Gaza. All of this followed by an extra good grievance section. Tune in for a thought-provoking discussion that challenges conventional perspectives and offers fresh insights into today's most...

In the early days of 2023, a group of researchers and activists published a  report  with a shocking conclusion: Utah’s Great Salt Lake was losing water so fast that it was on track to effectively disappear within five years. Since the report was issued, the Great Salt Lake’s water loss not only slowed, but its water level actually  increased . In June 2024, the lake’s two side...

On Tuesday, the Senate  voted  50–49 to confirm Emil Bove to a lifetime judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) joined all Democrats in opposing Bove’s nomination; Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN)  did not vote . The confirmation follows a protracted fight over Bove’s nomination, which included whistleblower reports that Bove act...

In the past two months, several major U.S. food companies have voluntarily committed to removing artificial food dyes from their products, following  a plan  from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to work with the industry to phase out petroleum-based synthetic dyes. In June, Heinz and General Mills  committed  to removing synthetic dyes from all their products by the end...

On Sunday, President Donald Trump  announced  that the United States and the European Union (EU) had reached a trade deal following a meeting between Trump and the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The U.S. and the EU agreed to a 15% tariff on most European goods imported to the U.S., as well as a commitment from EU members to buy $750 billion worth of U.S. energy and i...

The humanitarian situation in Gaza. On Sunday, the Israeli military  temporarily paused  operations in three parts of Gaza to allow aid groups into the enclave amid rising concerns over a hunger crisis. Separately, Israel  airdropped  humanitarian aid into Gaza for the first time since the start of its war with Hamas, one of several measures that government officials said were...

In this episode, Isaac, Ari and Kmele discuss the intricacies of political narratives surrounding the Epstein case and its implications, the candid revelations from Hunter Biden's recent interview, the dynamics of cancel culture, the complexities of climate change discourse, and the evolving landscape of political ideologies. Tune in for a thought-provoking discussion that challenges conventional...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about  five things I had gotten wrong about Trump  in his first six months in office. In all honesty, I’m not a huge fan of political prognostication, and I often try to avoid making predictions to focus more on my analysis and reporting. Still, predictions inevitably slip into that analysis; and my last retrospective, like many others I had written before...

On Thursday, the Senate  voted  51–48 to pass a rescissions package clawing back $9 billion in federal funding that had previously been approved for international aid and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The next day, the House  approved  the package 216–213, sending it to President Donal...

On Friday, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard  announced  the release of files that allegedly show President Barack Obama and his national security cabinet members concocted a false narrative of Russian interference in the 2016 election. DNI Gabbard claimed  the documents  showed a “treasonous conspiracy” to overturn Donald Trump’s electoral victory,  po...

On Friday, President Donald Trump  signed  the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, the United States’s first major cryptocurrency legislation. The new law  establishes  a legal category and regulatory framework for stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency whose value is tied to a reference asset, like the price of gold or the U.S. dollar...

On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal  published  a report claiming that President Donald Trump signed a letter containing a lewd drawing and sexually suggestive text as part of a birthday album for Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. The Journal says it reviewed the contents of the previously unreported album and letters but has not released any of the documents. President Trump  strongly deni...