Pope Leo at the Muxima Shrine Holds the Frame Without Naming the Vice President
No war, no injustice, no poverty, no dishonesty. Four nouns without a name. The pope has a formula now for how to hold a position after he has withdrawn it.
Culture
CBS Radio Enters Thirty-Two-Day Countdown as Paramount-Warner Deal Hovers Over Weiss's Newsroom
Thirty-two days until Murrow's old radio service goes quiet. Ruffalo says two thousand jobs already gone. The merger that would add tens of thousands more waits for regulatory sign-off.
Roldugin Reaches Day Ten in Moscow Detention as Western Press Stays Silent
Ten days into pretrial detention, the formal illegal-access charge stands, the May 10 window is three weeks out, and the Western broadsheets still have not filed.
Day Five and the USCCB Doctrine Rebuff of Vance Still Stands
Five days after the US bishops' doctrine committee corrected Vance on just-war theory, no swing-state bishop has named him.
Afrika Bambaataa at Sixty-Eight and the Legacy That Split in Half
Afrika Bambaataa died April 9 at 68; his two legacies — Planet Rock and the 2016 abuse allegations — will not reconcile.
A Guitarist Who Almost Joined the Stones, an Actor Whose Name Ran a Batman Trilogy, and Donald Pleasence's Daughter
Three career obits from April — Perkins, Nolan, Pleasence — all adjacent to larger names, all with six-decade arcs.
A Correction on Four Editions of Schedule F Framing
The paper's Schedule F framing across four editions was wrong; PEER v. Trump has been active since March 5.