“If we had a nickel for every time House Republicans have made it a legislative priority to rename Dulles Airport after President Trump in the past year, we would officially be one dime closer to affording a carton of eggs.”

Crowd sizes have in recent years become a matter of, uh, intense political interest. As the presidential race enters its final stretch of rallies before Election Day, what do we know about how to accurately calculate them?

“The crystal balls are fogged up, the prognosticator Nates have devolved into shrug emojis, and now the desperate among us want to know: Is the operative word in Kamala’s obituary ‘elephant’ or, well, ‘Kamala’?”

“You better be ready for Generation Alpha, if you think we’re bad.”

“‘Silvery disk shapes’ and 'shiny metallic’ objects are among the sightings collected by Enigma Labs, a platform that crowdsources UFO sightings.”

“In addition to some fun facts, like how esthetician Brittany Wiesniewski published a book on how to stay in cancer remission (the first chapter is titled ‘I Am Choosing to Remain Cancer-Free’), or that Tim Godbee hosted his own podcast in 2020, we saw some trends among the 29 singles headed to the pods.”

The former US ambassador to Germany has no arts and culture experience—but he sure knows drama.