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.
America has a spending problem. It also has a health care problem. These are not two separate crises but rather the same crisis wearing different clothes. The Cato Institute’s new “Handbook on Affordability” is a great resource to understand the root problem and how to fix it. Start ...
In a famous Supreme Court one-liner, reminding the legal community of the finality of the court’s rulings, the late Justice William J. Brennan Jr. is reputed to have said that the Constitution means whatever any five of us say it means. This reflects the basic math that five is a majority of ...
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner this weekend is the hottest ticket in town, but a tempest is brewing among journalists on Donald J. Trump’s presence at the posh gathering. This is a moment in the tales of our embattled city. It will be Trump’s first time at the dinner, a chance ...
Kansas was born arguing. Before it became a state, before there was a Capitol dome in Topeka, the Kansas Territory was consumed by a defining question: whether it would enter the Union free or slave. That struggle played out through elections, conventions, newspapers, and public meetings, ...
It’s not news that a man in Washington sits atop one of the three branches of government who interprets the Constitution as it suits him, disregards precedent and asserts he knows better than any experts. He has undone key Obama-era initiatives and tolerated glaring conflicts of interest ...
To the editor: For many years I have been concerned about the “go to” economic strategy called “GROWTH”. This basically means annexing city land and expanding infrastructure for development or adding more population density to existing parts of the city, thus increasing the population ...