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.
To the editor: Just when you think the Current Occupant has reached rock bottom, he does something to prove you wrong. The most recent occurrence is the creation, with the assistance of the acting attorney general, of a $1.776 billion slush fund to pay individuals who were charged with federal ...
To the editor: There is a new playbook in Kansas to end abortion rights: change the way we select our Supreme Court. If you have been listening you have heard how voting “yes” on the Aug. 4 amendment will “return the Supreme Court to the people,” “restore democracy,” and the ...
Hamas is winning the propaganda war against Israel. And it’s picked up an important ally in The New York Times, supposedly America’s newspaper of record. Israel’s founding document established a Jewish state in 1948 “for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on ...
It’s the controversy that has launched a thousand X posts. Elon Musk, who is a fan of Homer, has kicked up a fuss by objecting to filmmaker Christopher Nolan casting the Black actress Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in his forthcoming movie version of “The Odyssey.” The epic ...
This is the Trump era, which means if you blink, you will miss another shattering example of unabashed corruption. I don’t usually write about the same topic twice in a row, but the latest revelations of Trump’s wanton, shameless profiteering from the White House cannot go unremarked. The ...
Donald Trump is now an unpopular president. Some of this dissatisfaction is due to the war in Iran. Some of it springs from the unanticipated speed, chaos and perceived brutality of several of his administration’s actions over the past year and a half. But a significant part of his political ...