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.
In Washington, D.C., we endure slights of the president’s barking, his constant use of capital letters and his ever-present red ties. These are forms of shouting, weapons of psychological warfare that he wields as the master of repetition. Then there’s the 250-foot arch he plans to build, ...
There’s an ancient, almost surely apocryphal, story about a dog food company executive convening a big sales meeting. A very short version has the exec running through all of the company’s advantages: the best sales team, the best advertising, the best packaging, etc. He then irately asks, ...
For all the Middle American street cred he once commanded, Vice President JD Vance has turned into a disappointing tool for power. He and I were reared in the same Ohio steel town, a generation apart, and that once gave me a soft spot for him. But I was appalled last week by the way he dodged ...
To the editor: Just when you think the Current Occupant has reached rock bottom, he does something to prove you wrong. The most recent occurrence is the creation, with the assistance of the acting attorney general, of a $1.776 billion slush fund to pay individuals who were charged with federal ...
To the editor: There is a new playbook in Kansas to end abortion rights: change the way we select our Supreme Court. If you have been listening you have heard how voting “yes” on the Aug. 4 amendment will “return the Supreme Court to the people,” “restore democracy,” and the ...
Hamas is winning the propaganda war against Israel. And it’s picked up an important ally in The New York Times, supposedly America’s newspaper of record. Israel’s founding document established a Jewish state in 1948 “for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on ...