PhotoNew Yorkers, if not city dwellers everywhere, might acknowledge a debt to Pope Francis this week. It’s this: Give them the money, and don’t worry about it. The pope’s advice, from an interview with a Milan magazine published just before the beginning of Lent, is startlingly simple. View all New York Times newsletters. That toxic mind-set can be opposed in Washington, but it can also be confronted on the sidewalk.

Source: New York Times March 04, 2017 02:03 UTC