“If a Republican were in office right now, Osama bin Laden would still be in his compound, burning trash and slowly dying of old age.”

• Jim Blanchard

That’s the first sentence of piece by Paul Constant on Osama bin Laden’s death that we’re running in the paper this week. Also mentioned: McCain, Trump, the Obama Doctrine, remaking America, and a prescient joke told over the weekend. It’s up right now on our homepage and it’s required reading.