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 recent decision to rescind grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts will be felt for years to come. As both an artist and an administrator, I have seen firsthand that public funding is essential to keeping the arts accessible for our community. Access to ...
Trump is overplaying his hand. Not just by usurping the powers of Congress and ignoring Supreme Court rulings. Not just abducting people who are legally in the United States but have put their name to opinion pieces Trump doesn’t like and trucking them off to “detention” facilities. Not ...
At least six congressional Republicans are demanding a radical fix in the 2017 tax law targeting residents of high-income states. If they don’t get it, they may sink Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending package, his “one big beautiful bill.” And who can blame these reps from New York, ...
In case anyone was wondering, Joe Biden is every bit as unimpressive out of office as he was in it. The man who shuffled off stage last year in the middle of the play — an absurdist tragicomedy plagued by poor reviews and weak attendance — has shuffled back on to it. His ...
Once loyal Chicagoans got over the double shock of hearing that a local native, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has been named the 267th pope, some critically important, locally familiar questions came up: Which parish is he from? Sox fan or Cubs fan? And what bearing will his papacy ...
Washington — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney aced the Oval Office Exam during his sit-down with President Donald Trump Monday. Washington’s relations with Ottawa have been testy of late. During the 2024 campaign, Trump delighted his die-hard base to no end with his talk about ...
