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: What we’ve traded for bread and circuses

My son performs magic now. He picked it up at a friend’s birthday party — a sweet, old-fashioned affair with a magician and a goodie bag that instead of cheap plastic trinkets had the materials for three tricks basic enough that even a second grader could master them. After the pizza, ...

Opinion: A cruel irony — ICE profiling Natives

In a nation as diverse as ours, immigration enforcement inevitably tests whether equal protection means what it says. Some tribal leaders in the Upper Midwest say that test is being failed in the wake of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. By the end of the week, claims of ...

Opinion: I’ve got addiction down to a tea

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 ...

Opinion: Trump is an assault on the Republic

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 ...

Opinion: Girl Scout cookies are sweet way to learn of endangered species

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 ...

Opinion: ICE is a law-breaking ‘law enforcement’ agency

We’ve seen masked government agents roughing people up, shouting obscenities at them, trapping them on freezing cold roofs, smashing their car windows, shooting pastors with pepper balls, shoving women to the ground, separating mothers from their children and killing an unarmed American ...