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.
For decades I have been hearing the old courtroom saying about how a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich if given the chance, but I never expected to see it happen. What the saying conveys is that grand juries, which approve or reject charges to go to trial, only hear from one side, the ...
Last week, two things happened that may shed some light on where American capitalism is heading. First, Tesla’s board caved in to Elon Musk’s demand that he get a pay package of $1 trillion (if he meets various goals). Musk’s trillion-dollar pay package is so grotesque as to make a ...
To the editor: In these fractious times, how does Lawrence build a sense of community, where folks from different backgrounds can freely mingle, talk, exercise and play games? One possible answer is the Community Building, where locals could gather to rub shoulders with those who might share ...
“Everything she writes,” Mary McCarthy famously said about playwright Lillian Hellman, “is a lie — including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” Historians wrestling with how Americans permitted their democracy to be so badly debased during the President Donald Trump era will have to first ...
Donald Trump’s approval numbers continue to crater. Even Republicans have cooled on the president’s performance. But the president shows no sign of noticing, nor is he changing his ways. Even his gaslighting has gone wan. He’s failed to make Americans believe that prices are going down ...
To the editor: Nov. 10 is my nephew’s birthday. He won’t be celebrating, however, because a drunk driver killed him almost two years ago. He left behind a young widow and three children under the age of 6. The drunk driver, now — finally — in prison for murder, had multiple previous ...
