... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

You have got to be loyal to people beneath you.

If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have a separate foreign policy operatus in the State Department that would run a dissenting foreign policy from the White House foreign policy. There, I think the populist America-first foreign policy of Donald Trump does run against a potential rival.

People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.

My colleague Ross Douthat wrote that any time you give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, he always lets you down.

I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of strength, to be honest.