Was it mid-September? Oct. 1? Another date altogether? Chris Christie’s answer on when he first learned about the George Washington Bridge lane closings has, well, evolved. Here’s the timeline.

Seth D. Michaels dives in to why we should be worried that Olive Garden and Red Lobster are struggling while luxury retailers like Neiman Marcus are growing.

Gov. Chris Christie (R) is headed to Texas on Thursday to fundraise for the Republican Governor’s Association. But neither Gov. Rick Perry (R) nor the likely Republican nominee to replace him, Greg Abbott, plan to attend.

The boxing promoter who set up an upcoming fight between George Zimmerman and rapper DMX tells TPM he doesn’t want to talk about criticisms of the event: “You know it’s all business.”

The Times looks poised to publish Woody Allen’s response to molestation allegations.

Well, it turns out Team Christie’s claims about Wildstein’s dispute with his High School social studies teacher doesn’t even hold water.

This is kind of awesome. Paul Ryan pushes back on his own party’s line that the CBO report that came out yesterday is proof that “Obamacare kills jobs.”

Conservatives defensive over the multilingual version of “America The Beautiful” that aired as part of a Coca-Cola ad during the Super Bowl last weekend might be surprised to discover the words were written by a radical lesbian. Isn’t America great?

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey eliminates a position that had been created for David Wildstein.

Conor P. Williams on the state of today’s debate over whether charter schools are “good” or “bad”: “Absent strong evidence that charters are generally better — or generally worse — than their traditional counterparts when it comes to academic outcomes, we settle for intransigent arguments.”