Our limited attention spans.

A roundup of news and opinon.

It is escalating quickly.

The 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war sees a re-escalation.

A race a Democrat will definitely win will be the most expensive in US history.

Some people say there’s a reporter to blame.

The legendary football player and pitchman is gone at 80.

We won’t have Kevin to kick around anymore.

A weak leader has been ousted. Now what?

The game is the game.

A mere technicality?

What’s behind the sure-to-fail bid to oust his own party’s Speaker?

The Emily’s list leader will be the first Black lesbian in the Senate.

A satisfying but unlikely explanation.

It appears a shutdown has been averted after all.

The rules are a bit complicated.

A trailblazer is gone at 90.

Why it’s inevitable and what it means.

“Dog bites man” isn’t news. Unless it’s the President’s dog.

An idea, not a continent.

The chickens are slowly coming home to roost.

A short-term win for creatives and a longer-term loss?

The tables have turned.

Has the search goliath gotten worse?

Will taking the war to Moscow change Putin’s calculus?

An increasingly undemocratic regional power is a necessary but unreliable partner.

A joke(?) gone a-rye.

Much ado about nothing?

The President and his predecessor are heading to Detroit.

Another illustration of the weakness of the American party system.

The House is in recess as the exasperated GOP leadership tries to figure a way out.

Congress is doing something, at least.

The Senate is voting one-by-one in the face of the Tuberville hold on top nominees.

Germany’s economy is among the worst in the OECD.

The mainstream media isn’t and shouldn’t become a counterpart to the right-wing infotainment complex.

Americans have largely stopped using checks and are rapidly doing the same with cash.

It turns out, he wasn’t all that truthful.

Hasan Minhaj is a serial liar. Does it matter?

A political trial for political crimes always yields a political result.

The trend shows no sign of abating.

The MAGA wing is driving us over a cliff.

The President’s support for labor and aggressive action on climate change are in tension.

A longtime friend has passed.