• Picks for ‘26

    Testing our mettle

    Strange things have been happening over the past week. Mostly good stuff, though, for a change. Take the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last Friday. How refreshing it was to see a megalomaniac in the White House slapped back by a conservative Supreme Court. And to finally hear the highest court in the land declare, “No, you can’t do that!” I’m referring to the justices’ 6-3 ruling that imposing sweeping global tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner exceed the president’s powers under federal law. At long last, according to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, “it was especially refreshing that the Supreme Court … suddenly found a spine.” How’s that…