With the death of Pope Francis, the world loses not only a church leader but also a moral compass

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any wackier, we get the return of Michele Bachmann.
The Minnesota Tea Party Republican, who served in Congress between 2006-2015 and briefly ran for president, likes to extol the virtues of “American exceptionalism,” and claims the US is “the indispensable nation of the world.”

The Trump government is seizing overseas students from their homes and campuses and even off the streets, with no legal grounds and no due process, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER


