Birthdays, at my age, now 73, are a far cry from those of my youth. Back then there were the birthday parties, the sleepovers and of course the presents, but more importantly it was the beginning of your future, a future full of dreams and adventures all wrapped up in feelings of immortality. ...
There are moments in political life when rhetoric stops being merely provocative and begins to test the boundaries of institutional respect. President Donald J. Trump's attack on a sitting pope invites comparison to one of the most consequential overreaches in modern American history: when ...
If Team Trump has dragged itself to the negotiating table with Iran, it's not because the U.S. is winning this war. One side of these talks features top Iranian brass. The other, two real estate agents (Steve Witkoff and Jared "Gaza Riviera" Kushner), Vice President JD Vance who's fresh off ...
As far as showdowns between popes and secular leaders go, President Trump versus Pope LEO hardly rates. LEO hasn't forced Trump to come see him and stand for three days in the snow, the way Pope Gregory VII did to Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor, in 1077. Nor has he issued an interdict, a ...
When I was a child, my older brother would sometimes ask - aka, tell - me to make him a sandwich. And my mother, shaped by a time when traditional roles were more firmly drawn, would reinforce the request. As a schoolgirl, I didn’t have the language for what I felt. I only knew something ...
Retail stores locking up items is the symptom of a much larger problem. I recently went to Walmart and had ibuprofen on my shopping list. I went to the medicine section and -- groan -- saw this $5 item locked behind glass. There were a couple of other people already waiting, so I looked around for a call button. That's when one of the people waiting said an employee was already helping them, but needed to get more boxes. I was utterly confused. One of the waiting customers remarked that he was from Florida and that stores there didn't have items behind locked glass. What a ...
