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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 with France. In response to the new security arrangement, and the loss of the defense deal, French Presiden...
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 out of the Korean peninsula, as well as our commitment to defending the state of Israel and pushing f...
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 investigation. On Thursday, an indictment came down alleging that Michael Sussmann, a high-profile cyb...
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, edited by Bailey Saul, Sean Brady, Ari Weitzman, and produced in conjunction with Tangle’s social med...
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, we'll take a look at some reactions from the right and left, then my take. Our newsletter is writt...
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 Brady, Ari Weitzman, and produced in conjunction with Tangle’s social media manager Magdalena Bokowa,...
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, who also created our logo. The podcast is edited by Trevor Eichhorn, and music for the podcast was...
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 Brady, Ari Weitzman, and produced in conjunction with Tangle’s social media manager Magdalena Bokowa. Th...
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 in partnership with Imposter Radio. To subscribe to our newsletter, go to readtangle.com. --- Send i...
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 college campuses. In our conversation, we talk about whether there is a free speech problem on coll...
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 this episode, we discuss the intersection of faith, politics and LGTBQ issues, and how Rabbi Moskowi...
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 Washington Post and many others. During the show, David explains why he is pursuing retrocession, h...
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, China, where Rogin says coronavirus may have originated. After more than a year of being dismissed as...
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/2021/05/19/opinion/israel-palestine.html You can follow Munayyer's work on Twitter here If you're not ye...
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 training in Ohio, South Carolina and Indiana as well as 100’s of advanced training in investigations as ...
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 ask Wen about whether we should still be wearing masks outside, her thoughts on our fight against C...
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 not yet a Tangle subscriber, you can sign up here: https://www.readtangle.com/ And you can find a t...
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On today's podcast, we sit down with the nationally syndicated columnist David Harsanyi. He is an author, a senior writer at The National Review and a columnist at The New York Post. Harsanyi spoke with us about his view of the Biden administration, reflected on the state of the Republican party, shared his thoughts about the latest conversations around gun control and offered his view of how conservatives can win in the upcoming elections. To follow David you can check him on Twitter here . Be ...
In today's podcast, we sit down with conservative writer Drew Holden to discuss the state of bias in the media. Holden's work has been published in The New York Times, The National Review, The Washington Post, Fox News and The Federalist. He is also a media strategist and a former legislative assistant in the House of Representatives, where he spent some time working for Republican Rep. Paul A Gosar (R-AZ). During our conversation, we get Holden's thoughts on how the press is treating Biden, how...
On today's Tangle podcast, we sit down with Dr. Erica Anderson , a psychologist and clinician who works with transgender youth. Anderson's particular expertise is in the psychological aspects of gender and gender identity formation, and their relationship to individual development. She is also an expert in evaluating patients with psychological disorders and separating these conditions from gender issues. During our conversation, we have Dr. Anderson explain the basics of what it means to be tra...
Today, we sit down with Jonna Mendez, the former chief of disguise at the CIA. She was recruited to the agency in 1966, spent 27 years in service, and is on the Board of Directors for the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. She spent her career in the Office of Technical Services of the CIA, which is staffed by engineers, chemists, physicists, makeup artists and counterfeiters. It's the part of the CIA you probably imagine when you think of a James Bond movie. In this podcast, we chat w...
On today's podcast, we sit down with Minky Worden, the Director of Global Initiatives at Human Rights Watch. Worden authored the 2008 book China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges and has previously lived and worked in Hong Kong as an adviser to the Democratic Party of Hong Kong chairman Martin Lee. We chatted with Worden about the current human rights crisis in China, the state of press freedom there, how global organizations could respond in a helpful way and ...
On today's podcast, we sit down with Ciaran O'Connor, the Chief Marketing Officer of Braver Angels. Braver Angels is an organization that is seeking to depolarize America by getting people with different political views to speak with each other. O'Connor, a former Obama campaign staffer and self-proclaimed liberal, joined the group after Trump's victory in 2016 to seek out a new path in politics. In this episode, we talk about the monumental task of bridging the partisan divide, opine on whether...
On today's Tangle episode we sit down Anna Massoglia, an investigative researcher with OpenSecrets. Her work exposes how money is being spent in politics, tracks the sources of "dark money" and helps illuminate the underworld of campaign spending. OpenSecrets is a non-partisan organization used by journalists across the world that tracks money in politics. You can find Anna on Twitter @annalecta and you can visit OpenSecrets at https://www.opensecrets.org/ For daily issues like this, don't forge...
Frank Morano is the host of "The Other Side of Midnight," one of the most popular political radio programs in New York City. This self-described "center-left" populist is a two-time Trump voter with high hopes for Andrew Yang and stories about his relationships with everyone from Roger Stone to John Gotti Jr. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tanglenews/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
On today's Tangle pod, we sit down with Alex Nowrasteh to discuss Joe Biden's immigration bill. Alex is the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, a Libertarian think tank. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tanglenews/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tangle News' founder Isaac Saul discusses the final polls, what he is looking for, and his 2020 electoral college and the Senate race predictions. Subscribe to Tangle: https://tangle.substack.com/about :00 - 14:53 Introduction, hellos and what the last batch of polls are telling us. 14:53 - 20:28 The early vote and what we can take away from the numbers so far. Plus, the data in there that’s sticking out to me. 20:28-27:20 What I’ll be watching tonight as the results come in: the red and blue mi...
