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: Get rid of Washington’s brutalist buildings

There’s a reason God created dynamite. The brutalist federal buildings that have blighted Washington, D.C., for decades deserve the same fate as Carthage after the Third Punic War, and the nation’s capital is finally beginning to move on from these concrete monstrosities. The ...

Opinion: Trump’s budget-busting bill is a travesty

One of my objectives in this column is to equip you with the facts you need. As the Senate approaches a vote on Trump’s giant “big beautiful” tax and budget bill, I want to be as clear as possible about it. First, it will cost a budget-busting $3.3 trillion. According to new estimates ...

Letter to the editor: The time is now

To the editor: Since World War II America’s been the leader of the free world. The U.S. could be counted on for trade, goodwill and defense of allies. Under Joe Biden, Ukraine counted on us to stand up to Vladimir Putin. Then Donald Trump and JD Vance had hissy fits and our support is ...

Opinion: What I fear Trump will do with his war

One of my goals in writing this column is to alert you to dangers to our democracy so you can alert others, who then alert others, and by this means we enlarge and strengthen our bulwark against the tide of fascism. Wars pose particular challenges to democracy because nations at war often ...

Opinion: Iranian regime is no friend to peace in Middle East

The proverb “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” goes back to Roman times. But being repeated through the centuries doesn’t mean it’s always true. Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump ordered warplanes to bomb Iranian nuclear ...

Opinion: A lot of Americans ‘are going to die’

Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican from Louisiana, is also a doctor. He put up resistance last February to Donald Trump’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Bobby,” as Trump likes to call him, has long cast doubts on the safety of vaccines ...