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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
That $7,500 tax credit to buy an electric vehicle, now gone, was a "grotesque misallocation of federal spending." It was a form of "rent-seeking," whereby companies seek "to dominate the bureaucracy instead of the marketplace." Thus wrote Kyle Smith in a Wall Street Journal column titled ...
President Trump and Pope Leo are in a war of words right now -- when they should be allies, not enemies. Both want peace, but the president intends to get it by winning a war against Iran, while the pope thinks the war isn't worth fighting. "I don't want a Pope who thinks it's OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon," Trump said Sunday on his Truth social-media network, in a post blasting the pontiff as "weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy." With midterm elections just seven months away, Catholic voters suddenly find themselves in the crossfire between the Vatican and the ...
