The Sunday — August 30

The Sunday — August 30 By Tangle Staff • 30 Aug 2026 View in browser This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading. Editor’s Note: Last week, we ran a reader essay critical […]

Expatriate Dreams

                       Sponsored by Briscoe Center for American History “It was out of estisal that some Iranians chose war,” writes Nahid Siamdoust in the NYR Online. Estisal, which, loosely translated from Persian, means “having no options” or a state of helplessness, is […]

LETS FACE IT: Iran has EPICALLY defeated America

Join the Center for Political Innovation: https://www.cpiusa.org/join-cpi NEW BOOK “Imperialism & Anti-Imperialism: Key Writings and Lectures” https://amazon.com/dp/B0H2F6L19H In this livestream, Caleb Maupin examines the escalating confrontation between the United States and Iran and argues that Washington’s campaign to isolate, weaken, and contain the Islamic Republic has suffered a […]

Unsedated And Undeterred

Caitlin Johnstone Aug 28, 2026 Reading by Tim Foley: The empire shall not dull your kindness. The cruelty of the bank boys shall not drain the brightness from your eyes. You are not like the others. The dollar-drilled and Pentagon-pilled. The ones whose youthful rebelliousness prolapses out their […]

Haidt, Vindicated

Haidt, Vindicated Plus: The scourge of scromiting, blaming air traffic control, and more… LIZ WOLFE Was Jonathan Haidt right all along? Readers of this newsletter—and writers at Reason—are surely divided on this one. On Wednesday of this week, news broke that Meta had reached a humongous $17.1 billion […]

Self-care is not selfish

Repro Nation Monthly | August 2026 A participant during the 52nd annual West Indian Day Parade in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, on September 2, 2019. The annual celebration is expected to return on Labor Day. The midterms are 67 days away. It’s the tail end of […]

A Lifetime of Robert Higgs’s Best Work

This carefully curated volume brings together the most influential writings of the legendary Robert Higgs. Enjoy an unparalleled look at his journey of thought, spanning civil rights, wartime political economy, the military-industrial complex, the regulatory state, the Food and Drug Administration, the long-run growth of government power … […]

One Day You Too Will Be a Terrorist

From the Mau Mau and the FLN to the designation of Palestine Action, how Western powers have used the label of terrorism to criminalize resistance while placing colonial violence beyond judgment. Ahmad Ibsais Aug 28, 2026 The first time I understood what Palestinian “terror” meant to the rest […]

U.S. sanctions UK’s Palestine Action as “terrorist group”; ICE agent released from Texas jail; Russia threatens to strike UK military targets in Ukraine

Drop Site Daily: August 27, 2026 Drop Site News Aug 27, 2026 Demonstrators protest outside the Royal Court’s of Justice as the Court Of Appeal makes its judgement on the Home Office’s challenge to the Palestine Action decision on June 15, 2026 in London, England. Photo by Carl […]

Juvenile Injustice

        Sponsored by Columbia Global Reports “Since the late 2000s,” writes Dana Liebelson today in the NYR Online, “states have increasingly moved away from trying and incarcerating kids as adults in the justice system.” However, as with so many other progressive efforts, the movement against imprisoning children […]

We Don’t Need No ‘Education’

Troy Southgate Aug 26, 2026 THE British media is claiming that there is currently a “post-pandemic bubble” of bad behaviour among schoolchildren and that a quarter of them have been suspended in what has been described as “peak classroom disruption”. Needless to say, this is an enormous figure […]

The Other Donald

Sponsored by Thames & Hudson A dispatch from our Art Editor, Leanne Shapton, on the art and illustrations in the Review’s August 20 issue. On a recent Friday afternoon, I visited the Judd Foundation building at 101 Spring Street and was taken on a tour of the space by their […]

Still the Kingmaker

Still the Kingmaker Plus: Surrogacy case, pied-à-terre tax, A.I. op-eds, and more… LIZ WOLFE Darline Graham won her Senate primary: Down in South Carolina, Darline Graham—the sister of recently deceased Lindsey Graham—just won the Republican Senate primary, overcoming her dearth of experience (and probably being helped by President […]

Marxism and Christianity

Troy Southgate Aug 26, 2026 DURING the mid-1990s, when I was at university, I took a course under the tutelage of Professor David McLellan, someone who is widely considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on Karl Marx. The course itself was entitled ‘Politics and Christianity’ […]

“Gen Z” Makes a Startling Discovery

Troy Southgate Aug 25, 2026 IF there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s categorising people simply for being born within a similar time-frame. Apparently, the youthful denizens of “Gen Z” have finally discovered that the existence of other Homo sapiens provides them with a convenient opportunity to socialise. […]

8/25/26: Bessent Threatens Blowing Up Global Finance, Canada Trade War Begins, SCOTUS Mail In Decision, Abdul Vs Watters, MA Candidate Jamie Belsito

Ryan and Emily discuss Bessent unveiling Operation Economic Outcast on Iran, Canada rages at Trump’s new trade war, SCOTUS’ huge decision on mail in voting as a gift to Trump, Abdul El-Sayed going head-to-head with Jesse Watters on FOX, Lindsey Graham’s sister flailing as Trump seeks to rescue […]