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| Greetings, newsletter readers. It's your Monday pilot Rex Huppke here to assure you America remains largely bonkers and generally overrun with news. |
| Let's start with what matters: dragons. If you sunk your eye-teeth into the Sunday night premiere of HBO's "House of the Dragon" — the first spinoff of the "Game of Thrones" series — you'll know dragons are both bountiful and, as I and my colleague Austin Bogues discussed in this column, AWESOME. |
 | | A copy of the graphic novel version of Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl." | | USA TODAY | |
| In the real world, twice-impeached former President Donald Trump continues to wrestle with an FBI search of his home in Mar-a-Lago that uncovered boxes of top-secret government documents. Trump is throwing excuses at the wall like spaghetti, desperate for something to stick. On Monday, he filed a lawsuit seeking to halt investigators' review of the classified documents, noting in the suit that he is "the leading voice in the Republican party." Mmm-hmmm. You'll be hearing more from me in the days ahead about that hot mess. |
| In other not-good news, we have Republican-led states attempting to ban books from school libraries, including, in Texas, a graphic-novel version of Anne Frank's diary. Thus my earlier use of the word "bonkers". |
| Maybe America's new motto should be: "Pardon us. We're going through some things." |
| As you buckle up for what lies ahead this week, check out some of the work my colleagues and I have done lately in trying to keep up with the madness. |
What else has Rex been writing? |
 | | A dragon flies over the Red Keep in "House of the Dragon." | | HBO | |
| ►Can we trust 'House of the Dragon' after that last season of 'Game of Thrones'? |
| ►As Texas targets 'inappropriate' books, I say keep going: My list of what to ban next |
| ►With Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act on Tuesday, it's a new day for Democrats. Dark Brandon is unleashed. This is his origin story. |
Ideological mobs have us running scared. Time to stand up for ourselves. |
| By Scott Jennings |
| The woman who feels compelled to proclaim the usefulness of masks, despite her misgivings (and a significant amount of research). The congressman whose voters expect him to repeat things out loud he doesn't believe to prove himself. The parent who wants to be more involved in a school but fears the social backlash of taking on the public education cabal. |
| A new study of American opinions – public and private – paints a dark picture of our daily lives that leaves me worried about where we're headed. Read more... |
A few columns to catch up on |
| ►'Forgiving' student loans isn't motivated by kindness. It's cold, hard politics. |
| ►'What I learned from my father,' the first Black secretary of the Army |
| ►Really Florida? A 16-year-old is mature enough to have a baby but not an abortion? |
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