Keeping up with politics?

So I’m actu­ally try­ing to keep up with pol­i­tics; call it the spirit of the times. I’m hav­ing a hard time find­ing what to read with­out it com­pletely con­sum­ing my time. Won­der­ing what every­one else reads.

Here, I’ll start: Ken shared Don­kle­phant with me about a year ago, a (gen­er­ally) bal­anced source of polit­i­cal news. Not too many sto­ries a day, not too much punditry.

If you keep up, how do you do it?
(Read my update for some of my answers.)