Michael Kruse

5 days ago | politico.com | Michael Kruse |Bill Duryea

It’s been said an American has never been chosen pope because the United States already holds such sway over the world politically, culturally and economically, that it would be too much to give an American immense religious power as well. No doubt, Leo’s global influence will be measured constantly by the church’s more than 1 billion adherents.

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Michael Kruse |Bill Duryea

Seventeen popes have presided over the Catholic Church since the founding of the United States. None of those men was from America. That changed Thursday when Robert Francis Prevost, son of Chicago’s South Side, emerged onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and spoke, in Italian, the words: “La pace sia con tutti voi.” Peace be with you all.

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Michael Kruse

For a half-century Trump and the mainstream media have mutually benefited from a stormy symbiosis. Why is he trying to kill the institution that made him? Illustrations by Joseph Rogers for POLITICO Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer at POLITICO and POLITICO Magazine. In late 1999, in New York in a van in the speeding, sirens-blaring motorcade of President Bill Clinton, Associated Press White House reporter Ron Fournier got an unexpected call.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Michael Kruse

1 day agoTrump administration seeks criminal prosecution of New York attorney generalDonald Trump's administration is accusing New York Attorney General Letitia James of mortgage fraud, and has made a criminal referral to the the justice department seeking federal prosecution.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Michael Kruse

In late 1999, in New York in a van in the speeding, sirens-blaring motorcade of President Bill Clinton, Associated Press White House reporter Ron Fournier got an unexpected call. The voice on the other end of his phone was vaguely familiar. “This is Donald Trump.”Fournier, like most of the rest of his colleagues, was focused on the last year-plus of Clinton’s scandal-scarred second term and the pair of party primaries taking shape.