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When a president frames a pope not as a moral interlocutor but as a political adversary, something deeper is at play.
The true measure of our economy is not how strong it sounds but how well it holds up under pressure.
If Good Friday were the end of the story, it would offer little comfort. But it is not the end. Resurrection Sunday changes everything.
An industry is emerging that is highly organized and highly active built on selling identity to young men searching for direction.
The world does not simply observe America — it measures itself against it.
While we project strength abroad, we must also ask: What is happening at home?
A partial shutdown may be framed as a negotiating tactic, but in reality, it is something far more serious.
Projecting the future is easy. Living with its consequences is far harder.
In foreign policy, what diplomats once called "masterly inactivity" is sometimes the most prudent strategy of all.
Carolina basketball is not a side enterprise; it is foundational to the university's national reputation.
The ultimate objective cannot merely be the next strike or the next response. It must be the creation of conditions that reduce the likelihood of future war.
We would do well to remember history not as an abstraction but as a warning.
If Trump truly wants to secure not only victory but legacy, this is the moment for a different kind of speech.
He understood the moral argument he was advancing, even when he fell short of embodying it perfectly.
He reminded me, at age 21, that the sky was the limit, and that I must never allow anyone or anything to place me in a Black box.
Sex was not the center of his power. It was a byproduct.
A nation that shrugs at repeated incursions invites more.
A republic survives not by force alone but by legitimacy, restraint and a shared commitment to human dignity.
Banning prepubescent children from social media is not a retreat from modern life. It is an assertion of responsibility.
Chaos, once normalized, never confines itself to the causes that first unleashed it.
