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: Silent attacks on personal freedom

During the first Trump administration, the FBI quietly spent $5 million on Pegasus, an Israeli-developed software product known generically as zero click. Zero click permits the user to download the contents of another mobile or desktop device without tricking the user of that device into ...

Opinion: Bombs for Iran, aid and comfort for Russia

The Washington Post, National Public Radio, CNN, NBC and The Wall Street Journal all cite sources indicating Russia is helping target attacks on American forces in the Middle East. Russia is allegedly providing satellite information to its ally Iran. Perhaps not coincidentally, Iran has ...

Opinion: The constitutional crises are piling up now

Readers, does it seem we’re going through one constitutional crisis after another? Six Democratic senators told a scrum of journalists that President Donald Trump’s newly launched war on Iran, with Israel, pushed them past a breaking point. They vowed to force public hearings and debate ...

Opinion: Legislators won’t call the war what it is

Let’s state the obvious: We’re at war with Iran. My evidence? Turn on your TV. U.S. forces, working with Israel, killed the supreme leader of Iran and many of his top aides. We sunk Iran’s navy and destroyed most of their air force. We bombed thousands of military sites across the ...

Opinion: We will continue to resist Trump’s violence

Last week was a hard week. U.S. missiles and bombs have so far caused at least 1,168 civilian deaths in Iran, including 188 schoolchildren. Six American service members have perished. A direct line connects this violence with the U.S. government’s violence over the past year against ...

Opinion: A White House that’s for sale

In the end, it wasn’t the disturbingly Gestapo-like tactics of her U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, smashing cars, pulling innocents off the streets and executing two American citizens, that did Kristi Noem in. It wasn’t the sneering contempt of court orders or the incessant ...