ROSS DOUTHAT

In the struggles over the speakership, the old G.O.P. world, with all its dysfunctions, stalemates and futility, has come again.

Pope Benedict’s legacy will be felt across decades or even centuries.

When does a nation of heretics leave it’s a Christian origins behind?

In current politics, it isn’t just anti-Trumpers who find themselves frustrated by voters’ refusal to look backward.

Is nothing else so important as to continue ensuring that thousands of unborn lives can be ended in utero every year?

How medieval politics explains the social media war.

The Georgia runoff provided yet another case study in why the G.O.P. desperately needs to move on from Trump.

A glimpse of how liberalism yields to dystopia.

Or did they just prove that it was stable all along?

How we think about philanthropy.