National Columns

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: All eyes on the Correspondents’ Dinner

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 ...

Opinion: Roberts is a danger to democracy

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 ...

Opinion: Nostalgia fools all of us from time to time

Your memories will try to trick you. I thought about that as I was driving down a street near my house the other day, when I spotted a father walking down the sidewalk, his young daughter slung over his shoulder like a sack of coal he was hauling out of a mine. Her hair bounced along on his ...

Opinion: AI doesn’t belong in our schools

Norway is, by almost any metric, a profoundly successful nation. It’s rich, democratic and relatively corruption-free. It’s not a socialist country, but fans of a robust welfare state and high taxes see much to admire in the very progressive Norwegian model. It also benefits from having the ...

Opinion: Sometimes, unfortunately, war is the answer

Countless protest signs have informed us over the years that “war is not the answer.” We hear this message, with varying levels of sophistication and differing underlying worldviews, from institutions and people ranging from Code Pink to Pope Leo. “War does not solve problems,” the ...

Opinion: Trump & the gospel of ‘Pulp Fiction’

It is hardly surprising that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s explicitly Christian monthly worship services in the Pentagon have raised alarm in some quarters about the separation of church and state. But who expected to find him quoting lines of alleged scripture that were lifted from ...