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Dear readers,

Happy Sunday! You might be wondering what is prompting this unusual weekend email.

Well, today, I am thrilled to announce a new Tangle partnership with the global news organization DailyChatter.

For the last four years, one of the most frequent questions I get in Tangle is, "do you do Tangle for country X?" or "can you cover more international news?"

Since we are a small team that focuses mostly on U.S. politics, the answer is — unfortunately — no. Tangle only exists for the United States right now, and while we do cover some international issues, we usually do it when there is a peg to U.S. politics.

However, last year, I came across my new favorite source for international news: DailyChatter.

Like Tangle, DailyChatter is independent, founded by a journalist with an eye toward fairness, and written in one of the most neutral, non-partisan voices I've found. Simply put, it's the best place I know of to get international news, and just like Tangle, it's released every weekday in a newsletter.

So I reached out to their founder to ask to work together. It turned out he liked Tangle, and so we came up with a deal: We'd start regularly pointing our readers to each other's newsletters, hoping that DailyChatter's international readers wanted a place for U.S. news and Tangle's readers wanted a place for international news.

In my nearly four years of running Tangle, this is just the second partnership I've ever done like this. I hope that speaks to my trust in DailyChatter, and the fact I'm confident you'll find the kind of news there you come to expect from Tangle and our partners.

Unlike Tangle, DailyChatter's business model is a little different. They run free trials. That means you can read it for free for 2 weeks, but then you'll be asked to subscribe for less than $30 per year. As a testament to how good the product is, consider this: 84% of all their users who start a free trial stay on as paid subscribers.

Today, I'm writing to announce our partnership, and to ask you to go support DailyChatter. You'll see me promoting them once a week or so going forward. Give it a shot, see if you like it, let me know what you think, and open up your news diet beyond the U.S. borders.

Happy reading!

Best,

Isaac & the Tangle team