Opinion

The Washington Post, beginning Nov. 1, 2019, will allow its syndicated columns to appear only in print. The columns will still be available as part of our e-edition newspaper online, but they will not be available as separate pieces on our website, ljworld.com. These columnists include George Will, David Ignatius, Michael Gerson and others. This does not affect other columnists like Leonard Pitts, Mona Charen, Connie Schultz and Mark Shields, who are not affiliated with the Washington Post.

Opinion: Victim-blaming of Ukraine continues

One of the challenges with writing about the war in — and on — Ukraine is that so little changes. I don’t mean the fighting on the ground, though even there, when viewed from a distance, it doesn’t look as though much has shifted in a long while. Russia has gained very little ...

Opinion: We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for

We’re now officially in the run-up to the midterm elections, with less than two months to go before Election Day 2026. The good news is most Americans now understand how bad Trump is. With the exception of Nixon, he’s the most unpopular second-term president at this stage in his tenure in ...

Letter to the editor: A dying superpower

To the editor: "A superpower is dying by suicide because the Republican Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the mad king." Journalist Garrett Graff wrote that sentence in a Wired Magazine column published Jan. 22, and historian Heather Cox Richardson quoted it in her own column, Jan. 26. ...

Letter to the editor: Proposed amendment targets women

To the editor: If you are a woman who changed your last name after getting married, the upcoming vote on a proposed state constitutional amendment regarding citizenship and voting is crucial. The amendment would make it harder for you — even impossible — to vote in future elections. ...

Letter to the editor: Cruel to Cuba

To the editor: The U.S. State Department has deployed another round of society-crippling tariffs against our neighbors in Cuba. Regardless of one’s position with respect to their country’s failed and corrupt leadership, I believe it is grossly immoral for our own government to try to ...