(Editor’s Note: In DCist’s pursuit of trying out new features, we’re going to introduce something we call Weekend Reading — essentially we’re going to point you to what papers are featuring in their Sunday editions, or in case of The Financial Times, their Saturday/Sunday edition. There isn’t necessarily anything local here, but considering reading the Sunday papers can be a recreational activity to some in this city, we think it could be of use. Editors and reporters put a lot of time and energy into their Sunday offerings. Their efforts should be noted.)

— In The Washington Post, Jim VandeHei and Peter Baker anaylze the uneasy relationship between the White House and Congress over the realities of the ground situation in Iraq. And Republicans in Congress are becoming more skeptical of the Bush administration’s Iraq talking points.

The disconnect between Rose Garden optimism and Baghdad pessimism, according to government officials and independent analysts, stems not only from Bush’s focus on tentative signs of long-term progress but also from the shrinking range of policy options available to him if he is wrong.

Additionally, the Post looks at the status of Mike Tyson’s boxing career … in Outlook, Stephan Amidon considers how the behind-the-scenes family pressures may have influenced how W. Mark Felt came forward with his Watergate secrets … and in the Magazine, Jonathan Ernst profiles the Alexandria man who would be president of Liberia.