Alexandra Petri

Manchin vows to leave the Senate to unite the country (behind Donald Trump) -- an annotated look at the senator’s retirement announcement.

On Tuesday, Potential Childbearing Vessels on Legs successfully insisted on seeing themselves as fully realized people deserving of the protection of the law.

One of my grandmother’s great delights was watching things she could not stand, and “The Sound of Music” was at the top of that list.

Wise words from House Speaker Mike Johnson. Here are all the ways he is right!

Just because it was an election that happened to make him speaker, did that make winning a majority of votes suddenly a legitimate way of obtaining power?

This year you will be safe from Halloween! OR WILL YOU? See if you avoid spooky pitfalls in this choose-your-adventure story by Post columnist Alexandra Petri.

What I am trying to say, with apologies to Shirley Jackson, is that something was very wrong in Capitol Hill House.

I’m not the problem. Clearly, voting is the problem.

Alexandra’s live chat with readers starts at 11 a.m. ET on Tuesday. Submit your questions now.

‘Nevertheless,’ ‘Still’ and ‘However’ concur.