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: Wishing Biden peace in life after presidency

As my mother and I watched President Joe Biden speak to the nation after announcing that he would not be running for reelection, my mother brought up one of my funny childhood moments when Gerald Ford was president. It was during Ford’s 1975 address to the nation on energy policy, and she ...

Opinion: Sorry, everyone, but Oswald still acted alone

All we need to know about the Deep State, we supposedly learned when John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Sean Davis of the conservative website The Federalist wrote on X, “They did it to Kennedy, and his brother, and ...

Opinion: We have one healthy political party

Within minutes of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 race, Sen. Tom Cotton leaped onto X to declare that “Joe Biden succumbed to a coup by Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Hollywood donors, ignoring millions of Democratic primary votes. Donald Trump took a bullet for ...

Opinion: What a real ‘pro-worker’ GOP would look like

Members of the new right wing of the Republican Party have proclaimed themselves the champions of the working class. I am sure they mean it, despite many of them being among the elite of the elite. And because so many are lawyers — including those like VP nominee J.D. Vance who come from ...

Opinion: Please bring Kevin Spacey back to the movies

It all started with a claim by Anthony Rapp that while attending a party in the home of Kevin Spacey in 1986, the actor got drunk, threw him on a bed and jumped on top of him. Also an actor, Rapp was 14 at the time, and Spacey was 26. Spacey denied that happened. In the wake of the charges, ...

Opinion: 1968 and 2024: when history rhymes

A Democratic president announces he will not run for reelection and throws his support to his vice president. The vice president in turn wins over a majority of the delegates before August’s Chicago convention even without picking up any delegates in the primaries. The fall campaign will be ...