There were so many. But that was the worst. — I try not to get too angry about politics, not because it’s not worth getting angry about — it almost always is, particularly over the last seven years — but because if you’re not careful, you’ll always be angry. And that’s no way to live, even if it’s justified. (Especially…

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It’s not even all that controversial, not anymore. — It has become an axiom of political and sociological thought that we are a divided country. Blue states, red states, 50–50, two sides that absolutely cannot understand what the other side could possibly be thinking — we can’t come together on anything. It is my experience, walking around the earth…

There are so many problematic faves. — My son William is a Cleveland Browns fan. He cheers for the Browns — who play in a town that’s exactly 703 miles from our house in Athens, Georgia — because his favorite player is former Bulldog Nick Chubb, and Chubb plays for the Browns. …

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Thank God. — The picture above features my family two years ago: My son William starting third grade, my son Wynn starting first grade and my wife, like me, trying to find a window to jump out of. It has been two years since America began its grand virtual learning experiment. Sure, virtual…

You can call them dumb, though. — Almost one year ago, I wrote something on this site that, I must say, I did not imagine would be particularly controversial. “Stop Sneering At the Unvaccinated Sick,” the headline read, and it was about something strange I’d seen happening among my fellow vaccinated Americans: People were not openly mocking…

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The “Thank You For Your Servitude” author on his new book, those who empowered Donald Trump and whether we’re going to make it through this. — Mark Leibovich is the sort of journalist — and person — I admire and am inherently drawn to: He’s foundationally, constitutionally, No Bullshit. He’s a dean of the Washington press corps but also outside of it, a tapped-in reporter who’s a creature of the swamp while still being able to…