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: The Trump-Vance-Musk manosphere

Did anyone else see the horrific display in the Oval Office last Friday as a ritual exercise in male domination? I don’t want to insult great apes, but I’ve seen similar performances at the zoo. Donald Trump and JD Vance sought to humiliate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, treating ...

Opinion: Don’t let ‘reverse discrimination’ reverse progress

Marlean Ames of Akron, Ohio, is not gay or a member of a racial minority. But, please, she points out, don’t hold that against her, as she alleges her employers have, as she takes her “reverse discrimination” case all the way to the Supreme Court. I wish her well. As an African American ...

Opinion: Democrats have to do better than this

The president and JD turned a meeting that was supposed to make nice in the White House into a segment for Fox News as they openly shouted at Ukraine’s leader for not being thankful enough for America’s aid and Donald Trump’s leadership. After Vance accused him of being ...

Opinion: Congress needs to do its job on prices

If President Donald Trump was elected with a specific mandate, it was to lower prices. Poll after poll reveals that inflation is a top worry for Americans. So the administration should be worried that it’s ticking back up. Further, the president — who seems to think he can solve all ...

Opinion: Trump’s America open for corruption

Is America open for corruption now? Unabashedly? Nakedly? Are we tossing aside not just our hard-won victories over infectious diseases but also the more than hundred-year battle against fraud, bribery and graft? Honest, clean government doesn’t follow automatically from democracy. Before ...

Opinion: Trump and Hitler: Too close for comfort

For years now, I’ve tried to resist the temptation of writing a side-by-side comparison between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. I agreed with Abraham Foxman, the longtime head of the Anti-Defamation League, who said last year, “Comparing him to Hitler is an over-the-top exaggeration which ...