White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently used a word that seems to have disappeared from our anything goes culture. Asked to comment on transgender activist Rose Montoya, who posted on social media “a video of herself and two others going topless for a time” at a Pride ...

What will Republican voters make of Trump’s federal indictment? There have already been polls, but they are too early to mean much. Voters’ reactions will be influenced by Republican leaders and media personalities. For the past eight years, “influencers” have rallied around Trump. The ...

If there’s one thing worse than a crooked tyrant, it’s an unpatriotic crooked tyrant, and with the unsealing of the detailed 44-page indictment handed down against him by a federal grand jury in Miami last week, one thing is clear: former President Donald Trump checks all the boxes. Trump, ...

An unusual metabolism must propel Vivek Ramaswamy’s rapid-fire fluency during peripatetic campaigning. And something keeps him slender while not counting calories, as at last Sunday’s brunch of huevos rancheros followed by a hamburger topped with a fried egg. The first Republican ...

It’s not unusual for prayer to play a role in sports. “Spahn, Sain, and pray for rain!” was the famous refrain of Boston Braves fans in 1948, when they wanted their exceptional pitchers Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain to start as many games as possible. A couple of years ago, the team ...

Journal entry by Loretta Beyer — March 4, 2021 “Lord of the Dance,” by Carter, using an old Shaker melody, is one of my favorite hymns, because the words and verses take you through the whole of creation. “I danced in the morning when the world was begun, and I danced in the moon ...