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.
Recently, the student newspaper at an elite northeastern university analyzed the list of outside speakers invited to campus in order to assess where they stood politically. Two years in a row, it found that 93% of the speakers were on the left, and only 7% on the right. Students in one ...
We are now witnessing the start of what might be seen as Phase 2 of Trump’s efforts to eradicate political opposition. Phase 1 has centered on silencing criticism. It has featured retribution toward people Trump deemed personal “enemies” — not just Democrats who had led the criticisms ...
This is not about Charlie Kirk. He was admirable as a debater and as a conservative who welcomed debate. Some of his utterances were reprehensible, but no one should die because of opinions. This is about the 22-year-old who apparently shot and killed Kirk from a rooftop — and also the ...
The president of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously when he ordered the murders of 11 people who were riding in a speedboat in the Caribbean Sea around 1,300 miles from the U.S. Afterward he said he did so because he believed that they were members of a ...
In his life’s work, Charlie Kirk, the rising star in conservative politics, did not give me, or millions of Americans like me in the political center or left, a great deal of optimism about the direction of our nation’s partisan politics. But his brutal assassination, captured in ...
Given the tsunami of news demanding your attention you might have missed an interesting trial balloon launched by the Department of Justice last week. Officials briefed reporters on preliminary discussions among the department’s top brass to ban transgender people from buying guns. This was ...