In a “a microcosm of Egypt’s broader campaign against the country’s estimated 10 to 15 million Christians in the majority Sunni Muslim nation,” Cairo “has steadily chipped away” at the autonomy of St. Catherine’s Monastery, “run by Greek Orthodox monks,” which “for more than 1,500 years,” has “served as a sanctuary of worship, refuge, and scholarship,” reports Mariam Wahba at The Free Press.

Notably, the government in 2023 “seized control over academic access” to St. Catherine’s “unparalleled manuscript collection, which rivals the Vatican’s with a continuous record stretching back centuries” — and “has yet to approve a single research request” even as it canceled the “ongoing project to digitize the manuscripts.”

If Washington “is serious about protecting religious pluralism and preserving Christian cultural heritage” in the Middle East, it’s time to leverage some of Egypt’s $1.4 billion a year in US military aid.

ObamaCare is “a gift that keeps on giving — for insurers,” snarks The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board.

“The law forces Americans to buy pricey plans with benefits they don’t need.”

The Paragon Institute “reports that taxpayers are subsidizing insurance for nearly 12 million people who never use their coverage.”

Why? “Insurance brokers have been fudging incomes of people in order to enroll them in government-subsidized plans for which they aren’t eligible, often without their knowledge.”

Team Biden “facilitated such fraud by easing income verification” checks. The GOP tax bill toughens those checks, but “Democrats claim such measures will cause millions” to lose coverage.

Again, “many don’t need or use their insurance”; “why should taxpayers subsidize insurance for healthy people who don’t need or use it?”

The Working Families Party is now the “modern equivalent of Boss Tweed” in New York City politics, argues Joseph Burns at City Journal, because “New York’s system of fusion voting,” combined with a 2006 state court ruling permitting the WFP “to exert influence by funding, organizing, and running candidates in Democratic primaries across the state,” has allowed the WFP to “master the rules, control the levers of power, and punish disloyalty.”

In the 2025 Democrat primary campaign, it “focused not just on boosting Mamdani but also on blocking his chief rival and the WFP’s longtime nemesis, Andrew Cuomo.”

The party has thus “positioned itself as the new boss — one well on its way to dominating Democratic Party politics in the Empire State.”

Zohran Mamdani “presents severe risks to the Democratic Party on the national stage,” warns Douglas E. Schoen at The Hill.

Either he’ll be “seen as ineffective” or New Yorkers will “get a firsthand lesson on the dangers of socialism.”

“Should crime spike due to a sharp reduction in the number of police officers, Democrats across the country will be branded as soft on crime.”

“If excessively high taxes on the city’s high-earners cause capital flight,” then “voters’ trust in Democrats to handle the economy will sink, and it’s already tremendously low.”

And “if Mamdani fails to protect New York’s Jewish citizens, it will reinforce perceptions that the Democratic Party is rife with antisemitism.”

All of this “may deepen the animosity and alienation many voters feel” toward “today’s Democratic Party.”

This fall in Canada’s schools, “will students be painting coffins in the playground? Will they have field trips to and pajama parties in funeral homes?” asks National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez.

These are actual suggestions “for how Canadians might normalize for children the country’s Medical Aid in Dying regime.”

MAID is the new “euphemism of choice” for physician-assisted suicide, “intended to make people feel more comfortable with doctors’ being called on to kill.”

Canada has seen cases of individuals “suffering mental illnesses or even hearing loss” who have requested or successfully applied for MAID.

The Associated Press reported last year, “Committee reviewing euthanasia in Canada finds some deaths driven by homelessness fears, isolation.” 

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board