Hey there...
My name is Isaac Saul, I am a reporter by trade and the founder of Tangle, an independent, ad-free, non-partisan politics newsletter that summarizes the best arguments from the left and right on the news of the day. Tangle has been recognized by The New York Times, Forbes, The Hustle, Substack and many others as one of the most successful politics newsletters on the internet.
Currently, I am based in Philadelphia, PA, though I was raised in suburban Pennsylvania and spend a lot of my time in West Texas, upstate New York, New York City, and traveling the country. Throughout my career, my news reports and columns have entered the national discussion. I've gotten to present my views on national television, nationally syndicated radio shows and podcasts, and have seen my work on CNN, in The Huffington Post, The New York Daily News, TIME Magazine, The Daily Mail, Yahoo!, The Forward, and A Plus. My reporting has been cited by The Washington Post, The New York Times and Fox News, among many others.
You can subscribe to Tangle by clicking here.
Currently, I am based in Philadelphia, PA, though I was raised in suburban Pennsylvania and spend a lot of my time in West Texas, upstate New York, New York City, and traveling the country. Throughout my career, my news reports and columns have entered the national discussion. I've gotten to present my views on national television, nationally syndicated radio shows and podcasts, and have seen my work on CNN, in The Huffington Post, The New York Daily News, TIME Magazine, The Daily Mail, Yahoo!, The Forward, and A Plus. My reporting has been cited by The Washington Post, The New York Times and Fox News, among many others.
You can subscribe to Tangle by clicking here.
I was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and got my start in journalism at Pennsbury High School in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where I was a news anchor and script writer for PHS-TV. I joined the The Pitt News during my sophomore year of college at the University of Pittsburgh and served as the sports editor until I graduated. During my time in Pittsburgh I got to intern for local weekly papers and shadow reporters from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Since graduating college, I have lived, studied, traveled or written all over the U.S., Canada, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Thailand, Alaska and Texas, both of which I've come to consider countries of their own.
I left The Huffington Post in 2014, where I started my professional career, to work along alongside Ashton Kutcher and a talented team to build A Plus, one of the world's largest positive news outlets. Our stories focused on the people finding solutions to important issues, the heroes in tragedies, and stories that can inspire change. In 2021, I left A Plus to pursue Tangle full-time.
You can follow me on Twitter here, where I share some of my work and great reporting I come across on the internet (along with the occasional sports tweet).
I left The Huffington Post in 2014, where I started my professional career, to work along alongside Ashton Kutcher and a talented team to build A Plus, one of the world's largest positive news outlets. Our stories focused on the people finding solutions to important issues, the heroes in tragedies, and stories that can inspire change. In 2021, I left A Plus to pursue Tangle full-time.
You can follow me on Twitter here, where I share some of my work and great reporting I come across on the internet (along with the occasional sports tweet).
Tangle.
I write an independent, ad-free, non-partisan politics newsletter where I answer reader questions from all over the country and cover the day's biggest news. It's called Tangle. You can subscribe here.
My work.
Over the course of nearly a decade, I've worn all kinds of hats in the newsroom: politics reporter, investigative reporter, generalist, social media editor, opinion columnist, breaking news reporter, and opinion editor. I've reported on how Harlem is combating gang violence, what harsh rhetoric and 9/11 security has done to our borders and the most unique home in America. My re-telling of the infamous murder of William Vassar won me a first place award in Pittsburgh's Neighborhoods in Transition writing competition. A column I wrote about Richard Sherman and how racism intertwines with sports fandom helped me land a spot on CNN. My rebuke and then consequential endorsement of Hillary Clinton received over four million views and altered the conversation around millennial support of the Democratic nominee. Yahoo! named me one of the 16 people who shaped the 2016 election. I have covered everything from gay rodeos to the secret escape routes used by North Korean refugees, dissected the feasibility and unlikelihood of Donald Trump's proposed border wall, dove into the unfathomable rise of cryptocurrency and spoke to undocumented immigrants hiding in sanctuary across the United States. I've interviewed civil rights heroes like Rep. John Lewis, war heroes like Sen. Tammy Duckworth, and chased down entire branches of government, like when I asked every sitting Senator what bill could pass the Senate with bipartisan support. I've gotten FEMA to admit the mistakes it made during disaster relief efforts and investigated the EPA's reluctance to tout its own record. Much of my reporting today focuses on Congress, elections, immigration and climate change.
In 2015, my investigative piece on predatory payday loans changed public policy when it was cited by Maxine Waters in a letter to Congress urging universities and retirement plans to divest from certain lending services. After losing several classmates to heroin overdoses, I took a deep dive into what caused our country's epidemic of opioid addiction. In 2016, I travelled to Indonesia to write about the Australians helping build homes in rural parts of the country. In 2017, I took a trip to India to cover the vaccination push that has helped eradicate polio. In 2018, my reporting on Aaron Schlossberg became national news and I was invited back onto CNN to discuss my experiences covering Trump rallies.
In 2015, my investigative piece on predatory payday loans changed public policy when it was cited by Maxine Waters in a letter to Congress urging universities and retirement plans to divest from certain lending services. After losing several classmates to heroin overdoses, I took a deep dive into what caused our country's epidemic of opioid addiction. In 2016, I travelled to Indonesia to write about the Australians helping build homes in rural parts of the country. In 2017, I took a trip to India to cover the vaccination push that has helped eradicate polio. In 2018, my reporting on Aaron Schlossberg became national news and I was invited back onto CNN to discuss my experiences covering Trump rallies.