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: Trump’s cocktail of racism and spectacle

Donald Trump sent National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles. As a follow-up, he deployed the National Guard and FBI agents on the streets of Washington, D.C. The two cities were carefully chosen. What’s a better symbol of diversity, 21st-century culture and illusion than Los Angeles, ...

Opinion: Trump’s crackdown in D.C. clashes with constitutional principles

President Donald Trump argued last week that as a result of the federal enhancement of police work in Washington, D.C., the city has gone in four days from being the most dangerous in America to being the safest. He cited no evidence but relied apparently on his own observations and anecdotal ...

Opinion: Trump’s grovelers will fall on their faces

Monica Crowley, a former Fox News personality who is now Trump’s chief of protocol, apparently left behind in a public area of an Alaskan hotel documents describing confidential planned movements of Trump and Putin during their Friday meeting in Alaska. That’s nothing compared to Emil ...

Opinion: Meeting nets nothing for Ukraine, much for Putin

Departing Alaska after a mega-hyped meeting with Vladimir Putin that gave the Russian dictator plenty to smile about, President Donald Trump trotted out the customary hogwash. It was, he proclaimed, “a great and very successful day in Alaska.” For some lucky salmon fishermen, perhaps, but ...

Opinion: Mamdani doesn’t understand NYC

Why do the world’s poor make a beeline for New York City? It is now home to over 3 million immigrants, the largest influx coming from the Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Mexico, Guyana, Ecuador, Bangladesh, Haiti and India. How can these overwhelmingly poor new arrivals stay if no one ...

Opinion: Let’s fight crime, not each other

When your only tool is a hammer, psychiatrist Abraham Maslow famously observed, all problems begin to look like nails. That nugget of wisdom comes to mind as President Trump implements his federal takeover of the District of Columbia’s police force and the deployment of 800 National Guard, ...