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.
The federal government just closed fiscal year 2026 with a deficit of nearly $2 trillion, according to figures the Congressional Budget Office released earlier this month. Only the two pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 were worse. Today, though, there is no recession and no emergency. These ...
Once upon a time, a theory made waves in political science courses that it didn’t matter who the president was because the U.S. government was so mighty that it would run itself without any one person in charge. That’s ridiculous. I hope that professor lived to see what hell we’re ...
Why on earth did Ford stop making its heralded electric truck? As Americans shudder at high gasoline prices, prospective truck buyers are lining up at car lots to buy used F-150 Lightning and other electric vehicles. Ford stopped making the F-150 Lightning last December. There are several ...
America makes its choice two weeks from tomorrow. It’s not really a choice between two parties. After all, a record 45% of American voters now call themselves “independent” and don’t align with either party. And most of us who still describe ourselves as Republicans or Democrats ...
Leave it to a comedian with a national TV platform to express what troubles a lot of us, even if we hesitate to talk about it — for fear of being ridiculed as backward-looking worry warts. “When the people who are making AI are scared of AI, it’s time to shut the whole thing down until ...
Dear Lindsey, Your body had not long been in the grave when your pal Donald Trump made the anti-Russia legislation that carried your name a nullity. Wondering how you’d feel about this if you were around to see it. The whole point of your last decade of life was the belief (or was it a ...