There will be two chickens in every pot this holiday season. Maybe three.

Every now and again, it’s not Mitch McConnell’s fault.

Trump’s last Secretary of Defense is being stymied by preclearance review.

The language is going to iel in a handcart.

Kimberly Webb Joyner, my first wife and the mother of my children, has been gone a decade.

Yet another COVID-19 strain has emerged.

An interesting argument, albeit about a tiny and vastly over-discussed segment.

Representatives Choosing Their Voters Rather than Vice Versa, Chapter 412.

Our reactions to recent murder trials tells us a lot about our divided country.

The horrors never cease.

Academic freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

A just verdict—but just a verdict.

Family, football, feasting, and flashbacks.

President Biden’s domestic policy chief is a stickler for grammar.

The Internets are terrible.

A woman who declared “Civil War is coming” and “they have to kill me” has asked for and received leniency.

A scary if misleading factoid.

A pattern is emerging.

A serial criminal murdered five and injured dozens.

Two NeverTrump Republicans have had enough.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

Will America re-elect an 82-year-old to the White House?

A contrast in styles.

Some stories worth your time.

Why oh why won’t people stop commenting on the lady Senator’s outfits?

The reactions to a verdict that were predictable (indeed, predicted) are over the top.

The expected has occurred.

Exercising Constitutional rights comes with a price.

The next boot has dropped.

This man is the face of the post-Trump party.

A largely mythical beast may become even more rare.

A really strange case.

The erstwhile QAnon Shaman will spend another three-and-a-half years in jail.

A breakdown of a remarkable career that’s not yet finished.

The average American is neither progressive nor all that interested in politics.

When the headline tells the story.

Journalism is terrible except when compared to the alternatives.

A weird new narrative has emerged.

Reading disparate polling numbers critically.

Working conditions rather than labor supply seems to be the issue.

The politicization of the virus continues.

A conversation in two parts.

Science and insanity don’t mix.

The matter of Executive Privilege and former Presidents is settled law.