Not so much.

All 20 living hostages have been released and the bodies of others are slowly being returned.

The health agency has been gutted under RFK Jr.’s reign.

Congress, Schmongress.

A dramatic escalation of the standoff.

Peace Prize in our time!

A pause in fighting, release of hostages, and then . . . ?

The term which kicked off this week wil decide whether we effectively have a king.

She was not amused by the administration’s workaround.

The decision “was not conceived in good faith.”

A four-pronged test.

A No masquerading as a Yes to Trump’s peace deal.

The obvious has been made expllicit.

Passing a budget the President can ignore creates a dilemma.

A long and unusual speech has implications for civil-military relations.

Netanyahu will take it.

A reaffirmation rather than a revelation.

Here we go again.

A few more details have emerged.

What democratic backsliding looks like.

Every general and admiral in a command billet has been called for a last-minute gathering about some unspecified topic.

It turns out that goverment workers served a useful purpose after all.

A massive memorial service showed two divergent paths forward.

People are weird.

When empathy goes too far.

The actor and director is gone at 89.

Cancel culture on steroids.

We’re not alone in dysfunctional politics.

A little bit more than the law would allow.

Birds of a feather and all that.

Memories are fading, as they are wont to do.

A shocking, but not surprising, event. I fear it’s a harbinger rather than an outlier.

Can Democrats do anything?

The inevitable has finally arrived.

The Shadow Docket strikes again.

Another win for big donors.

BREAKING NEWS

A potentially costly rebrand and strange bedfellows.

A historically inaccurate bit of symbolic silliness.

The former White House physican (and current Congressman)’s demotion for misconduct has been reversed.

A very different way to run a railroad.

Former VPs get only six months of protection?!

Town hall meetings are a relic of a different age.