Wind On Capitol Hill
Mike Johnson’s Vote-Whipping Strategy: Two by Two?
A creationist offers a tour of a giant pretend Noah’s ark in Kentucky, which stands to earn eighteen million dollars in tax breaks thanks to the new Speaker of the House.
Robert Menendez’s Golden Pipes
The Senator, who’s been indicted for bribery, may have a fallback option if Congress boots him: singing, though not like the Feds may be envisioning.
Carole King on Capitol Hill
The singer and self-described “Jewish girl from New York” traipsed around taking selfies with legislators, in a quest to save the Rockies from loggers.
Watergate as Tragic Slapstick
In HBO’s “White House Plumbers,” David Mandel directs Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux as the bungling burglars E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy.
Meet the Man Who Brought You George Santos
Chris Grant, the founder of Big Dog Strategies, consulted on more than a hundred Republican campaigns last year. His hero: Karl Rove.
C-SPAN Unleashes Its Inner Scorsese
The network’s coverage is usually inert—Lights! Camera! Inaction!—but endless Speaker elections have turned A.O.C., George Santos, and Kevin McCarthy into action stars.
Vogue, But for Trumpers
The young founders of the Conservateur, an online magazine that aims to be a right-wing blend of Goop and Cosmopolitan, debrief the midterms’ best looks and biggest disappointments.
Baghdad on the Potomac: An Inauguration Day Tour
Pedalling a correspondent around Washington, D.C., last week, a pedicab driver confronted a Green Zone of eerily empty streets.
Jeff Sessions’s Opponent, Tommy Tuberville, Takes a Beating in Israel
The Auburn, Alabama, football coach worries that America is being taken over by sharia law, but his rival in coaching, Nick Saban, is a hit in Jerusalem.
The Diplomat Who Defied the Administration
When David H. Rank learned of Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris Agreement on climate change, he resigned and moved home from China.