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Pope Francis is increasingly showing his hand. He came into the papacy promising to clean up the Catholic Church, especially on matters of sexual abuse.
As President Donald J. Trump climbs to the highest approval rating he has reached in his presidency, we keep hearing about how much trouble he is in.
Whatever is to be the ultimate fate of the wretched Gov. Ralph Northam of the great commonwealth of Virginia, I wonder what he now thinks about those who use the term "racism" as loosely as he did in his race with Ed Gillespie.
The Great Debate between President Donald J. Trump and the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives came to a rather shabby end just before the book-reviewing sections of our great newspapers reviewed an anthropological marvel, "The Goodness Paradox."
Do you remember when rock 'n' roll took its turn for the worse? It was sometime in the 1960s when Bob Dylan and those in his thrall began singing songs about politics.
Do you recall back in July of 2016 when candidate Donald J. Trump brought down the house at a campaign press conference in Miami by jokingly pleading with the Russians to hack into Hillary Clinton's emails?
As every public-spirited citizen of these United States knows by now, 29-year-old Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
Did you follow the press in 2018? Apparently, most members of the press do not like our president, Donald J. Trump. Many of them think he is a tyrant in the making.
The United States of America has been the most desirable piece of real estate to inhabit for more than 200 years.
Homelessness is up for the second year in a row. That is no surprise to me. I spent the last few days in New York City, where it seems the homeless are as numerous as the tourists.
Now that America has had its holiday from politics, we can get back to poking one another in the eye, slipping one another a mickey and otherwise breaking the rules of decorum for the ladies and gentlemen of public life.
On Nov. 10, the conservative movement lost a giant: Herbert London, a Renaissance man, a scholar steeped in the Great Books tradition, a principled politician and a warm, personal friend of mine. I am running out of friends such as Herb.
Forty years ago this past Sunday, more than 900 men, women and children killed themselves or were murdered in Jonestown, Guyana.
I have been reading a most perspicacious book by my friend Andrew Roberts. It is just out: "Churchill: Walking With Destiny." It is terrific.
Well, it is not all bad news! Official Washington has unveiled its presidential candidate for 2020, and he will be every bit as effective as the Democrats running for the House of Representatives and the Senate were yesterday.
Last week, upon the arrest of this wretched man, Cesar Sayoc, I heard some good news. Within hours of his arrest, commentators on all sides admitted that, "Enough is enough."
The midterm elections are fast approaching. All sorts of forecasts are coming out. Oddly enough, no one has asked me what I think the outcome might be.
Back in late August, Pope Francis declared that he would "not say a word" about a letter from a former Vatican envoy to Washington, D.C., who claimed among other things that he had ignored sexual abuse charges made against then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, formerly archbishop of Washington.
I was wandering through the newspapers this weekend trying to find a cheerful story, or at least an optimistic story. It was pretty grim business.
