The Sunday Best

Recommendations!

The good: The Washington Commanders are in the NFC Championship Game for the first time since 1991.

The bad: I threw out my back while working out yesterday and can barely move.

You win some, you lose some!

But, this Sunday recommendations post — in which I share my favorite things from the Internet over the past week — is like the mail: Neither rain nor sleet nor excruciating back pain will stop me from delivering it to you, loyal reader.

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• New York Times photographer Doug Mills captured the official return of Donald Trump to Washington on Saturday night

  

• Ja Morant’s dunk on Victor Wembanyama didn’t count — but it was still AMAZING

• This past week was the 32nd anniversary of the single best “Simpsons” episode ever: “Marge vs the Monorail.” Conan O’Brien, yes, that Conan O’Brien, wrote that episode. Here’s him talking about it with Howard Stern in 2022.