Too many popes ... Opinion | Pope Benedict shows us how the Catholic Church went so terribly off-course wapo.st/2UvL5CV?tid=ss…

How the weakened leader of a failing state played the world's superpower ... Donald Trump is lucky. Vladimir Putin is luckier. wapo.st/2UJGhKk?tid=ss…

Forgot to send this one out. On the perils of being a frontrunner with a track record ... Biden’s campaign might start a lot like how ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ ends wapo.st/2GtAWwA?tid=ss…

Doing well and doing good. Why aren't our leaders talking about that? ... Opinion | We shouldn’t idolize wealth. But we shouldn’t demonize it either. wapo.st/2GP6X2z?tid=ss…

Paid a visit recently to Chicago to revisit a fascinating subject ... Opinion | Rahm Emanuel is leaving office. But he’s still campaigning. wapo.st/2PMBceB?tid=ss…

The day Mexico saved the USA ... Opinion | We get Cinco de Mayo wrong. But we’re not wrong to celebrate it. wapo.st/2vEgvb6?tid=ss…

Failing to learn the lessons of 2016 ... Democrats are falling into Trump’s trap. History proves it. wapo.st/2PYPqJg?tid=ss…

Quite a brave thing for a newsman to write, no? ... Do we owe it to society — and ourselves — to tune out the news? wapo.st/2Q6gmH5?tid=ss…

Please: Words have meaning, and radicals are not "conservative" ... This month’s abortion laws are anything but conservative wapo.st/2w1V8Rx?tid=ss…

Catching up on my Twittering ... We need more judges like Florida’s Leander Shaw wapo.st/2wcNZ0M?tid=ss…

A few thoughts on Memorial Day ... It would be a tragedy to forget what the statistics of war represent wapo.st/2wi9JrU?tid=ss…

Took a trip to Iowa over the weekend ... Elizabeth Warren’s jaw isn’t made of glass wapo.st/2QxMR11?tid=ss…

Legal witness-tampering, or cement shoes for rich people ... Jeffrey Epstein’s scandal of secrecy points to a creeping rot in the American justice system wapo.st/2MPupmv?tid=ss…

Breaking my Twitter silence to share this ... RIP Mad magazine ... Opinion | Mad magazine’s demise is part of the ending of a world wapo.st/32enHds?tid=ss…

William Greider, Journalist Who Focused on Economy, Dies at 83 nyti.ms/2sbVNBD

A great journalist and a lovely human being. He never flinched to tell me when he thought I had gotten something wrong, and never treated me any less warmly for it. A true role model of good faith.

Motel Life, Lower Reaches ⁦Ben Montgomery⁩ oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/…

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