President Donald Trump is right that Americans pay too high a price for many pharmaceuticals. In a May 12 speech and signing of an executive order aimed at rectifying the problem, Trump correctly diagnosed the reasons for high prescription drug costs. However, Trump’s legally unenforceable executive order slapping effective price controls on medicines is the […]

The first meeting between Mark Carney as Canada’s elected prime minister and President Donald Trump could have gone better, but it was far from a disaster. Trump opened the May 6 press conference that preceded the more formal White House meeting by congratulating Carney on winning a “very big election in Canada” at the beginning […]

It has long been an unwritten rule of the Catholic Church that no citizen of a world superpower can be pope. The informal logic is that such an arrangement would risk putting preeminent temporal and spiritual authority into the hands of the same clan. It is always safer to pick a pope from a more […]

LATAKIA, Syria — At first glance, Latakia looks to be one of the better places in Syria. Nestled on the Syrian coast, it was spared the worst horrors of the country’s 14-year civil war. A former stronghold of the Assad regime, the city was never the scene of the devastating fighting that took place elsewhere. […]