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: The Congress has now officially ceded to the president its constitutional functions of levying taxes, directing spending and deciding matters of war and peace. The president himself has acknowledged publicly that there remain no institutional checks upon his power. The one ...
To the editor: While Ebenezer Scrooge encountered four ghosts in his Christmas reformation, I was recently visited by the ghost of George Orwell. To my surprise, George was well-versed on contemporary events in America and offered this helpful guide to interpreting the confusing news coming ...
To the editor: During the campaign, Trump promised mass deportation. The Republican Party supported mass deportation. Fast forward to today, and Republican lawmakers are still apparently on board, even though “mass deportation” now means reigning terror on American cities. ICE agents ...
The advice to “Write drunk, edit sober” is often attributed (probably incorrectly) to the hard-drinking Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist. Here’s my own riff on that advice. I could not have written five novels or 150 columns without swilling my beverage of choice ...
In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas More, More argues with the attorney general of Wales about the law. The attorney general says he’d cut down all the laws in England to get to the Devil. More reminds him that the laws ...
It’s Girl Scout cookie time and this year feels extra special in Louisville, Kentucky, where I live. Not only are Girl Scout cookies made by Little Brownie Bakers here in Louisville, but this year’s cookie mascot has ties here as well. Every year, the Girl Scouts’ cookie program has a ...
