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A scholarly endeavor to make history more accessible to those who don’t particularly enjoy the domain, that’s how I’d describe this exercise. Here, you’ll find essays and stories primarily from India but also from other places that inspire wonder, awe, and thrill, all at once. Stories you either never heard of, or did but not the way they went down. History is boring. Just a confusing, sleep-inducing collection of dates and names nobody feels driven enough to care about today.

Hello, my name is Sherman Alexie. I’m a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, memoirist, and filmmaker. I’ve published two dozen books, including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which won the National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature and was listed by the American Library Association as the Most Banned and Challenged Book from 2010 to 2019. I’ve also won the PEN-Faulkner and PEN-Malamud Awards. I wrote and co-produced Smoke Signals, the feature film that won the 1998 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy and is preserved in the Library of Congress National Film Registry).

Simon Owens is a DC-area journalist who covers the media industry. His newsletter follows trends in both the Creator Economy and traditional media, and he also hosts The Business of Content, a podcast about how publishers create, distribute, and monetize their digital content. Simon got his start as a newspaper reporter covering government and schools in Virginia. He later held editor positions at PBS’ Mediashift and US News & World Report.

My name is Leighton Akira Woodhouse. I’m a freelance journalist and a documentary filmmaker, based at the moment in Oakland, California, which is right next to Berkeley, where I grew up. A long time ago I was a labor organizer, and almost as long ago, a doctoral grad student in Sociology at UC Berkeley (I got my MA and dropped out). Then I went into filmmaking and journalism. I used to freelance a lot for places like The Intercept and The Nation, and from that experience, got sort of a half-inside, half-outside view of what’s been happening to the media industry since Trump’s election.

I’ve covered Congress and the Department of Veterans Affairs for Stars and Stripes. I also have bylines in Politico, Bloomberg, The Washington Examiner, National Guard Magazine, and Military Times. In my hometown of Cincinnati, I wrote for the Cincinnati Enquirer and worked at Fox 19.  You’ll see content here a few times a month, stuff that might not fit neatly into the news I normally write. I served over a decade in the Army National Guard as a cavalry scout and deployed to Afghanistan.

The Sunday Scaries Podcast is your cure for the Sunday blues—the anxiety that sets in on Sunday nights with the impending return to the office, school, or work. It’s kind of a wellness and self-care podcast for those of us who have blurry Friday and Saturday nights. You get it. The Sunday Scaries Podcast is hosted by Will deFries, a writer and creative who got his first case of Sunday Scaries sometime around the summer of 2013.

A writer of novels and poetry plus a two decades-and-counting sports scribe at The Observer and The Guardian newspapers for which I am currently the Manchester football correspondent. The author of Manchester United books, A Season in the Red (Man Utd post-Sir Alex Ferguson), The Red Apprentice (a biography of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer), and Because They Can Play F’cking Good Football (Erik ten Hag’s first season). My debut novel is the crime caper, Night Time Cool.

Tangle is an independent, ad-free, non-partisan politics newsletter that summarizes the best arguments from the left and right on the news of the day. The Tangle format is our special sauce. Here’s what every newsletter will look like: We tell you the biggest political news story of the day. We give you a round-up of arguments from the left, right and center about that story. As an open-minded politics reporter, I’ll share my honest, unfiltered thoughts about those arguments.

Clare de Boer@claredeboer Clare is a four-times James Beard nominated chef and a writer. She’s the owner of Stissing House and co-owner of King, but is most often found in her home kitchen cooking for her husband and three sons. Writing about it here. ncG1vNJzZmibnJa%2FprDEm6aeql6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwrcGorK0%3D