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Heading into Friday, there was a quiet confidence on Capitol Hill that Democrats in the House were going to be forced to pass the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill by their leadership, which would’ve effectively detached it from the larger $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill and handed moderates a victory (if you need to catch up on this whole dynamic, you can read our coverage of this fr...

The president is trying to pass a $1.2 trillion, bipartisan infrastructure bill today. But progressive Democrats say they will only vote for that bill if it comes with a guarantee that the Senate passes its $3.5 trillion spending bill, also known as the reconciliation bill, which can become law without a single Republican vote. The problem: Moderate Democrats in the Senate, including Sens. Joe Man...

Yesterday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and the head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Frank McKenzie, all testified before Congress. They were called up to testify about the withdrawal from Afghanistan and were slated to be questioned about the chaos and failures of the withdrawal. However, Gen. Milley also fielded questions related to several tell-all bo...

This week could determine the future of Joe Biden’s domestic legislative agenda — and is perhaps the most important week of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 44-year career in Congress (and her biggest challenge to date). Today, we're setting the table. Our newsletter is written by Isaac Saul, edited by Bailey Saul, Sean Brady, Ari Weitzman, and produced in conjunction with Tangle’s social media manage...

On Friday, Cyber Ninjas, the group that conducted the audit of Arizona's largest county, released its official results of their hand recount. The review actually yielded more votes for Joe Biden and fewer votes for Donald Trump. In sum, Biden picked up 99 votes and Trump received 261 fewer votes. However, the group also alleged that they unearthed evidence that tens of thousands of votes were pote...

John Seago is the legislative director of Texas Right to Live, the group that recently helped shepherd Texas’s anti-abortion law into existence. We sat down for a wide-ranging, 45-minute discussion about the bill, why it was crafted the way it was, and some of his thoughts about the ethical nuances of the pro-life position. Our newsletter is written by Isaac Saul, who conducted this interview. The...

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Late last week, the United States announced that it would work with Australia and the United Kingdom in a new defense partnership, one in which the U.S. would hand over its nuclear-powered submarine technology to Australia. The security coalition is called AUKUS.  Once Australia made the new pact with the U.S. and United Kingdom, it also abandoned a $66 billion submarine defense deal it had w...

Yesterday morning, President Joe Biden delivered his first-ever speech to the U.N. General Assembly, a gathering of leaders from across the world. You can read a transcript of his remarks here . In the address, President Biden focused on Covid-19, climate change, emerging technologies and defending human rights. He reinforced the United States' commitment to keeping nuclear weapons from Iran and o...

Remember the Trump-Russia investigation? The one that produced Robert Mueller, and which many believed would lead to the end of the Trump presidency? Right now, there is an investigation into the investigation, being led by a different Special Counsel: this one is a man named John Durham. Durham was appointed in 2019 by former Attorney General William Barr to look into the origins of the Russia in...

More than 12,000 migrants, mostly from Haiti, are currently congregated underneath and beside International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, after they waded across the Rio Grande River from Mexico into the U.S. The town of Del Rio has a population of roughly 35,000 people, and the influx of migrants quickly exceeded the border patrol's capacity to process them. Our newsletter is written by Isaac Saul, e...

General Mark Milley. In a forthcoming book, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa allege that Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking and most senior military officer in the armed forces, was single-handedly taking action to prevent President Donald Trump from ordering a dangerous military strike against China or launching a nuclear strike at the end of his presidency. Today...

Democrats have released a new tax plan that would raise rates on corporations and the wealthiest Americans in order to offset some of the spending in their $3.5 trillion reconciliation package aimed at expanding the social safety net and addressing climate change. The plan will bring in an estimated $2.1 trillion over 10 years. Our newsletter is written by Isaac Saul, edited by Bailey Saul, Sean B...

On August 29th, the U.S. military announced a successful retaliatory drone strike against an ISIS-K combatant who was planning a suiciding bombing. But subsequent reporting has told a much different, and much more troubling story. Our newsletter is written by Isaac Saul, edited by Bailey Saul, Sean Brady, Ari Weitzman, and produced in conjunction with Tangle’s social media manager Magdalena Bokowa...

On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced a new slate of federal vaccine requirements that could impact as many as 100 million Americans. The new rules impose different mandates for both private and federal employees. We’re looking at the reactions from the right and left, our take, and a listener question about Ivermectin. Our newsletter is written by Isaac Saul, edited by Bailey Saul, Sean Brad...

In today's podcast, we sit down with Cuba expert Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez to discuss what's happening in Cuba, what the U.S. should do about the embargo and why Cubans are in the streets in the first place. Felipe-Gonzalez is a history professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio and has recently been published in The Atlantic. You can read his latest article here . Tangle is podcast produced...

On today's podcast, we sit down with Ilana Redstone. She is a professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne and the co-author of Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education . She also serves as a faculty fellow at Heterodox Academy, a non-profit advocacy group working to counteract a lack of viewpoint diversity on...

On today's podcast, we are sitting down with Rabbi Mike Moskowitz — an ultra-orthodox religious leader who is also an LGBTQ advocate and progressive activist. Rabbi Mike Moskowitz is the Scholar-in-Residence for Trans and Queer Jewish Studies at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the world’s largest LGBTQ synagogue. He also happens to be my rabbi, and someone I have a personal relationship with. In...

On today's podcast, we sat down with David Krucoff, the founder and executive director of Douglass County Maryland, a 501c4 that is advocating for the creation of Douglass County, Maryland, as a solution to the issue of D.C. statehood. David was also an independent candidate for Congress whose ideas about solving the D.C. statehood issue has gotten him coverage in the DCist, the Baltimore Sun, The...

In today's podcast, we sit down with Josh Rogin to discuss the "lab-leak" theory. Rogin is a columnist for The Washington Post and the author of the book Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century . For the last year, Rogin has been one of the most consistent and loudest voices calling for investigations into the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a laboratory in Wuhan, C...

In today's podcast, we sit down with Palestinian-American writer Yousef Munayyer to discuss the current conflict in Gaza and what the future holds for Palestine and Israel. Munayyer is a columnist whose work has been published in major newspapers across the globe and has advocated for a one-state solution. You can find his most recent column in The New York Times here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021...

On today's podcast, we sit down with Randy Shrewsberry. Randy is the founder and current Executive Director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform. He is a former police officer, Crash Reconstruction Investigator, and Certified Fire & Explosion Investigator. He has spent over 30 years in both the public and private sector criminal justice field and has attended basic police trai...

In today's podcast, we sit down with Dr. Leana Wen. Dr. Wen is an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University. Previously, she served as Baltimore's Health Commissioner. She’s a contributing columnist for the Washington Post, CNN medical analyst, and the author of the forthcoming book, Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health . On the show, I...

In today's podcast, we're sitting down with Alex Vitale, the author of The End of Policing and an advocate for abolishing the police. We spoke about how he defines the movement he is behind, what changes he'd prioritize, and whether we can expect these changes to happen. He also shared his thoughts on the Derek Chauvin verdict. You can find Alex's book here and his Twitter profile here . If you're...

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