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Welcome to the new year.

Are you looking for some reading while you nurse that hangover?

Get your Caps game face on for the Winter Classic:

GQ: Ovechkin With Love

His may be the perfect face of the NHL: broad, broken-toothed, misshapen by countless on-ice collisions—an affable Slavic caveman with an NHL scoring title, a dazzling highlight reel, and the capital of the Free World in his gloved, bloodstained hand. If only he had a Stanley Cup to go with it. Michael Idov tracks down Alex Ovechkin enjoying the off-season in Moscow—brooding, training, and finding solace in the arms of his Mother Russia
It looks like the EPA ain’t the only rogue Federal Agency in town:

The New Yorker: Casualties of Justice

The Justice Department clearly wronged Senator Ted Stevens. Did it also wrong one of his prosecutors?
Read what Jonathan Martin calls “the book that defined modern campaign reporting.”

Dateline: Chestertown, Maryland

CHESTERTOWN, Md. — Before Richard Ben Cramer bought his old white farmhouse here in 1993, he called in “the best real estate guy that I know,” and then-Delaware Sen. Joe Biden and his brother Jimmy drove down from Wilmington to have a look.