As I look to the new year, though, I can feel yet another shift in my aesthetic and cultural predisposition stirring. For what feels like the first time in my adult life, I yearn to be basic. Well, ...

The FBI failed to take the "basic step" of canvassing its field offices for intelligence ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a long-awaited Justice Department's ...