Commentary

Half the country breathed a sigh of relief at noon Wednesday. My social media feeds blew up with visceral expressions of that relief – emotional, heartfelt, teary.

No president in American history has so overtly devoted himself to appealing to evangelical Christians. It wasn't enough.

Is there a genetics to politics?

Even for a pro like me, though, this isolation is getting hard.

Belief in the unknowable reflects a yearning common throughout humanity before history began.

Whenever you hear someone predict who the next pope will be, usually that simply reveals who the one predicting hopes the next pope will be.