CONVOCATION: Less than 24 hours after offering Easter blessings and meeting with Vice President JD Vance, Pope Francis died this morning in Rome at age 88, the Vatican announced.    Originally from Argentina, Francis was the first Jesuit and Latin American pope. …

THE TARIFF ECONOMY: Stocks took another swan dive yesterday following remarks by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that President Trump’s global trade war might cause inflation, slow economic growth, and bring unemployment.   With Trump’s up and down, on-again off-again tariffs on imports, “Markets …

  Children’s Crusade: High school students marched on the Florida’s capitol in Tallahassee yesterday chanting “Never again!” and “Our blood, your hands!” The students have sparked a movement unlike anything that came after previous mass shootings. Speaking in the capitol …

Get Over It: The Washington Post reports that during a meeting with congressional leaders yesterday Trump spent about 10 minutes talking about his campaign and how three to five million illegal voters cost him the popular vote. There is no …

Berate the Press: So much about Trump. In his first press conference since July 27th, President-elect Donald Trump said that to avoid conflicts between his business and government he would turn over his holdings to a trust run by his …

Borderline: Donald Trump, who has been insulting Mexico for a year, says he’s flying today to Mexico City to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto just hours before he is supposed to deliver a major speech clarifying his policy …

Brexit: Voters in Great Britain went to the polls today to decide whether the country will leave the European Union, separating its economy from the rest of Europe. Leaving the EU might rock the European economy and change the relationships …

The Firing Line: The front page of today’s Boston Globe features a life-size picture of an assault rifle with the headline, “Make It Stop.” It won’t happen soon. The Senate yesterday was unable to move forward on what might seem …

Hot Water: Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder endured calls for his resignation yesterday during a Congressional hearing over the Flint water crisis. The decision to use water from the Flint river for the public supply released lead into the system. Snyder’s …

Advice and Dissent: President Obama is expected to announce his Supreme Court nominee today and begin the challenge to Republican leaders who say they won’t even consider a candidate. In an effort to make refusal difficult, the nominee is likely …