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I am standing outside the auditorium, seeing my students line up, or attempt to, for graduation photos. In their formal best, they complain their hair isn’t what they wanted or ask when the retakes are. They sneak their ...Read more

While the world and the nation were fixated on the white smoke billowing above the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, and the latest White House assault on the U.S. economy, a group of Memphis police officers were quietly ...Read more

David Souter, the former U.S. Supreme Court justice who died at 85 on Thursday, was sometimes mistakenly thought to have turned into a liberal after being nominated by President George H.W. Bush on the expectation that he ...Read more

"May peace be with you."

That was the first sentence uttered by Pope Leo XIV after he was introduced Thursday as the new leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. From the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, the first ...Read more

It’s no surprise that President Donald Trump’s first trade “deal” after his disastrous tariffs is more-so a framework than a done deal, but a handshake with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is better than a ...Read more

It’s no surprise that President Donald Trump’s first trade “deal” after his disastrous tariffs is more-so a framework than a done deal, but a handshake with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is better than a ...Read more

The animus that has led President Donald Trump to order an end to federal funding of PBS and NPR isn’t new. Public broadcasting has been an irritant to conservatives for a long time.

Conservatives say public ...Read more

Now that the histrionics have calmed — and before California Republicans pick another topic to distort with lies, over-dramatic outrage and public tantrums — it should be said that the California GOP didn’t succeed ...Read more

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has been the bogeyman of the right for the better part of four years. The hysteria began with Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “war on wokeness,” which one might have ...Read more