

I suspect Joan Didion would be amused to learn that I keep her on my obituary watch. The 86-year-old essayist…
One day after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Congress hit thousands of National Guardsmen stationed in the Capitol with a gut…
Washington, D.C. — “I’m going to need to see some identification,” a National Guardsman told me as I pulled up…
WILMINGTON, Del. — “Joseph R. Biden, America’s pride,” proclaims a billboard towering over the highway running through the city. Erected…
Washington, D.C. Downtown has changed a lot since last week’s massive MAGA wave rolled up Capitol Hill and into the…
Few Christmas films merit a yearly watch. The ones that do are mostly children’s cartoons: How the Grinch Stole Christmas,…
My travel etiquette during the coronavirus pandemic has been unadmirable. Since March, I have been to 17 states without taking…
Just after Christopher Nolan finished the script of Batman Begins, he took it down to Michael Caine’s house, unbidden, and…
There are only hours to go before election day, and businesses in most major cities are boarding up in expectation…