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SAN DIEGO -- Just when I thought I was out of the Catholic Church, something extraordinary -- an American pope -- might pull me back in.

It's beautiful to see how many people, places and things are claiming a piece of Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Augustinian pastor who will now and forever be better known by the handle Leo XIV.

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If you celebrated Mother's Day, you rejected modern feminism without even knowing it.

Last Sunday was Mother's Day. It's generally a joyous occasion. Everyone has a mother. Unlike with dads, almost everyone knows his or her mom. Most people appreciate the sacrifices their moms made.

More broadly, the survival of society depends on women ...Read more

FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia -- Steve Hotz started Black Horse Forge, a nonprofit organization that provides support for veterans, active-duty military personnel and first responders through the ancient art of blacksmithing.

The retired sergeant, who served 17 years in the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, said he started the endeavor to ...Read more

As the late senator from Washington state, Warren Magnuson, who served for more than 30 years in Congress, once said, "All that each industry seeks is a fair advantage over its rivals." Wilt Chamberlain had a fair advantage on the basketball court because he stood 7-foot-1. It allowed him to score 100 points in a single game.

The Trump 2.0 tax ...Read more

Never mind.

President Trump's 145% tariffs on China ran smack into Stein's law, the late economist Herb Stein's famous axiom that "if something cannot go on forever, it will stop."

What was effectively an instant embargo on the biggest importer into the United States wasn't sustainable, and sure enough, it's not going to be sustained.

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Earlier this week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided at least nine restaurants in the nation's capital, requesting proof that the establishments are not flouting the law by employing illegal aliens. Washington, D.C., presents itself as a so-called sanctuary city for illegal aliens, so the mere fact ICE agents targeted a ...Read more

Last week, Mosab Abu Toha, a Hamas apologist and serial fabricator who vilified female Israeli hostages and justified their kidnapping on Oct. 7, won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for commentary for a series of essays about Gaza in The New Yorker.

It is unsurprising, because the Pulitzer Prizes have become an irremediable joke.

You'd think that the ...Read more

Everywhere she goes, PBS CEO Paula Kerger makes the preposterous claim that there's "nothing more American than PBS." That's not an answer to anyone asking about the network's inevitable left-wing tilt. It's a way of changing the subject.

Last week, PBS and San Francisco PBS station KQED hosted a "Reframe Festival," and "PBS News Hour" anchor ...Read more

If you are a graduate of Yale University, you can vote every spring for a member of the Yale Corporation, which selects the school's president. However, you can only participate if you vote for one of the two candidates nominated by the Alumni Fellow Nominating Committee, a group of university officials and graduates. There's no way to write in ...Read more

Editor's note: Michael Reagan is on vacation this week. He will return with a new column on Friday, May 15.

In case anyone was wondering, Joe Biden is every bit as unimpressive out of office as he was in it.

The man who shuffled off stage last year in the middle of the play -- an absurdist tragicomedy plagued by poor reviews and weak attendance -- has shuffled back on to it.

His mini-rehabilitation tour in the media is, in accustomed Biden fashion...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- For the last few months, the Trump administration has offered undocumented immigrants nothing more than scapegoating, harsh rhetoric and one-way passage to scary foreign lands.

That was the stick. Now for the carrot.

The administration is offering a $1,000 stipend plus travel expenses to undocumented immigrants who volunteer to ...Read more

Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the "wall" between federal law enforcement and federal spies. The wall was erected in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which statutorily limited all federal domestic spying to that which was authorized by the Foreign ...Read more

Each spring, as tassels are turned and degrees are conferred, college graduates across the country celebrate the culmination of years of study, sacrifice and -- inevitably for many -- debt. Against this backdrop, the idea of student loan forgiveness is touted by many as a compassionate and progressive policy, a generous gift to the newest ...Read more

President Donald Trump's 2026 "skinny budget" is out, and at first glance it gives small-government advocates reason to cheer. It proposes deep cuts to domestic agencies, calls for eliminating redundant programs and gestures toward reviving federalism by shifting power and responsibility back to the states. It promises to slash overreaching "...Read more

The College of Cardinals of the Catholic Church has begun the conclave in Rome to elect the next pope. At this writing, the first vote has already been taken (without producing a replacement for the recently deceased Pope Francis), and by the time this column is published, the second vote will have been completed as well. Whether or not the ...Read more

This week saw two odd but parallel stories. The first featured a white Minnesota woman named Shiloh Hendrix, who allegedly spotted a Somali child rifling her diaper bag at the park; she then reportedly called the child the N-word. An irate park-goer with a rather questionable background then followed her down the street while filming her and ...Read more