The Sunday — February 16

This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading. 

What the left is doodling.

What the right is doodling.

Reader essay.

As many readers know, we were featured in a This American Life episode last year about how Tangle saved a married couple’s relationship. Earlier last week, we got a pitch from a reader with a younger version of a similar story: how Tangle is helping her navigate relationship with her boyfriend. The reader chooses to remain anonymous, and even though her situation is unique — a privileged white liberal Californian woman maintaining her relationship with a conservative immigrant Indian man while she is abroad in Japan — the conflicts she navigates in the piece are very relatable. You can read her essay here.

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Reader review.

In this section, we like to feature comments from the same edition that critique our coverage in different ways. In our edition on the dismissal of the case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, two readers offered two very different reactions: