Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, chosen as Pope.
He has reportedly taken the regnal name Francis I.
Some background on the new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires.
The co-founder of the new group Republicans For Immigration Reform was, about a year ago, running a pro-Romney super PAC that was slamming Romney’s rivals for supporting amnesty. Things change. Fast. Take a look.
Obama tells Senate Dems: You gotta do something about these GOP filibusters.
A Pope has been chosen. More news as we know it.
Late Update: We’ll know who it is in a moment. For now, here’s our list of bios of the top contenders.
Unlike the 2005 conclave, there seems to be no dominant ‘frontrunner’ for Pope, among the people who follow this kind of thing. But most knowledgeable observers think this man is the most likely to be the next pope.
Here’s our cheat sheet of a number of other cardinals who are believed to be ‘papabile’, i.e., possible candidates for the papacy.
TPM Reader BT has a bracing, hard response in our on-going discussion of marijuana legalization. He’s responding to this response from TPM Reader RG. I basically agree …
Sorry, but that person’s take is completely incoherent and ignores the lessons of history. Criminalized vice is inevitably the criminalization of being poor. Because that’s where enforcement falls and that’s where changes hands most openly — not because use and abuse are uniquely prevalent there.
Criminalization of the poor and brown, in my opinion, is the single greatest problem our country faces. By far. The mechanism for that is drug prohibition.