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.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are running content very harmful to children. So said a jury in New Mexico that just slapped their owner, Meta, with a $375 million fine. The state accused the company of spreading pornographic images and helping adults contact vulnerable children. Meta faces ...
Whatever you think of the war in Iran, there’s a separate question — independent of the military merits — that Congress must answer: How will it be paid for? The Pentagon has requested $200 billion to fund the campaign. While circumstances could change the price tag, interest payments ...
Cesar Chavez led the fight for farmworker and Latino rights in postwar America. But at the same time, he was molesting and raping women. Ana Murguia has told The New York Times that while in his 40s, Chavez trapped her behind a locked office door and pulled down her pants. She was only 13 ...
In 1968, Robert Mueller, poised to graduate from Princeton University, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, hoping to serve his country in the Vietnam War, which was then raging. It was the year that American troops would sustain their peak number of combat deaths, nearly 17,000. A son of ...
Early Monday morning, financial markets surged when President Donald Trump claimed there had been productive talks with Iran about ending the war. Therefore he backed off a vow to bomb Iranian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz wasn’t reopened by Monday evening. Iran denies any such talks ...
We’ve long known that Donald Trump drives his critics crazy, and he’s now doing it to some critics who used to be friends. The isolationist right is convinced that President Trump is waging the Iran War on behalf of Israel, which would make him the handmaiden of a foreign power. That ...