| After ballpark shooting, a call for civility, courage Posted: 14 Jun 2017 02:26 PM PDT ![After ballpark shooting, a call for civility, courage]( "After ballpark shooting, a call for civility, courage") Rep. Ryan Costello, shortstop on the Republican congressional baseball team, was two minutes late this morning, and so he missed his ride to a practice that turned into a shoot-out as a gunman wounded five people before he was shot and later died. "We're all good people" in Congress – Democrats and Republicans trying to help the country in their own way. Although the motives of gunman James T. Hodgkinson III, from Belleville, Ill., are unknown, he was a virulent anti-Trumper.
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| Americans expand the idea of giving – and goodness Posted: 14 Jun 2017 11:11 AM PDT ![Americans expand the idea of giving – and goodness]( "Americans expand the idea of giving – and goodness") Last year, according to a Giving Institute survey released June 13, donations or grants by individuals and philanthropies totaled $390 billion. The biggest increase, or 6 percent, went to animal-welfare and environmental groups. In the past decade, another type of giving – called "impact investing" – has taken off.
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| Is Trump 'disrupting' his own foreign-policy team? The case of Qatar Posted: 14 Jun 2017 10:36 AM PDT ![Is Trump 'disrupting' his own foreign-policy team? The case of Qatar]( "Is Trump 'disrupting' his own foreign-policy team? The case of Qatar") When President Trump chose a Rose Garden press conference to blast away at Qatar as the guilty party in the Gulf Arab states' sudden falling-out last week, it was a fresh example of the shoot-from-the-hip and mixed-messaging diplomacy that Americans – and the world – may have to accept as the new normal. There may have been nothing unique about Mr. Trump taking a decidedly tougher and less diplomatic approach to Qatar than his top diplomat, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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| Three key questions Sessions didn't answer Posted: 14 Jun 2017 04:55 AM PDT ![Three key questions Sessions didn't answer]( "Three key questions Sessions didn't answer") The most interesting parts of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Tuesday testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence may have been the questions he didn't answer. Attorney General Sessions appeared to have a two-pronged strategy for his appearance, which came in the wake of fired FBI Director James Comey's dramatic testimony last week. The second prong was to avoid saying anything about his dealings with President Trump.
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