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: Welcome to the age of political capitalism

Welcome to our regime of political capitalism, where merit matters but political connections matter even more. In an unalloyed capitalist system, money flows to those who offer goods and services of value to consumers. In a political capitalism system, money flows to special-interest groups ...

Opinion: What’s at stake in D.C. criminal code

Yes, Joe Biden believes that the District of Columbia should rule itself. Yes, Biden believes that D.C.’s new softer-on-crime law was a bad thing and needed to be stopped. But no, there isn’t a disconnect between the first belief and the second. It’s true that some of the changes ...

Opinion: Meet the most delicate snowflake: the Fox viewer

If you search for “safe space” on the Foxnews.com website you’ll get over 46,000 results. All of them aren’t about those woke snowflakes who need trigger warnings and cry rooms. But a whole lot of them are. For instance, in 2017, shortly after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Tucker ...

Opinion: Corporate greed needs guardrails

I’m not surprised that migrant children who have been coming into the United States from Latin America without their parents, fleeing violence and poverty, have ended up in some of the most punishing jobs in the country. And I’m not surprised that a train carrying dangerous chemicals ...

Opinion: Trump is firmly on top of Republican Party for now

Donald Trump has had a terrible couple of months — and still leads national polls for the Republican nomination handily. Almost everything that he’s done lately — really, everything since he’s left office — should redound to his discredit, and yet he remains in a relatively strong ...

Opinion: Fox News isn’t news at all

Oh how conservatives loved to hate the media. The leftward tilt of the big prestige press was irritating for those of us on the other side, and compounding the offense were ritualistic denials that emanated from the likes of CBS and The New York Times. Does it strike you as outrageous to ...