Pope Francis has returned from touring Hungary, a bastion of European conservatism, where his mixed messaging is seemingly at odds with national sentiment. At a Mass celebrated Sunday in Budapest, His Holiness called on the Hungarian government — led by…
The Republican Party’s slow transformation from the Bordeaux-sipping party of Acela Corridor suburbanites into the beer-drinking party of working-class Rust Belt-ers and Sun Belt-ers has been picking up some steam lately. And as the GOP’s divorce from the Chamber of…
The Tafts By George W. Liebmann (Twelve Tables Press, 432 pages, $29) Which is America’s longest-lived influential political dynasty? Author George W. Liebmann says it is the five generations of Taft Ohio Republicans, compared to only “four generations of Adamses,…
Don’t even think of mentioning Ukraine. Not Ukraine, not Russia, not anything like that. If you want your family to pray for peace in Ukraine, I suggest you say something like: “Let’s say a prayer for those places in the…
T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, hosts of the Good Morning America afternoon spinoff GMA3: What You Need to Know, have remained off the air for six straight shows after being removed from television by ABC after they were discovered to…
About now you will start receiving hundreds of invitations for Christmas dinners. If you receive one for each WhatsApp group, the best thing you can do is order a new liver on Amazon. They are available in mint condition and…
The strange yet predictable response to last weekend’s shooting at a gay club in Colorado Springs witnesses longstanding critics of James Dobson blame him for the murders. The 86-year-old Christian psychologist, like Professor Plum with the candlestick in the study,…
Dear Tommy, You are about to embark on a fantastically difficult journey — the journey of trying to make the major relationship of your life work. I am about to offer a few thoughts on the subject that may be…
This is I, / Hamlet the Dane. — Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1 Unless you count the giant, icy island of Greenland — which is fifty times its size with a hundredth of its population — Denmark is a tiny…