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”‘Whataboutism’ is crippling us

Before we can adequately respond to the frontal assault Donald Trump has launched on our way of life, we need to grapple with whataboutism. It is destroying our capacity to make rational judgments. Humans have always been beguiled by black-and-white thinking. Something is either good or ...

Opinion: Talk of Biden ‘cover-up’ is largely performative

If you’ve been reading, listening to or watching the news lately, you’ve heard about the allegations that former President Joe Biden suffered a precipitous cognitive decline while in office, one that could not and apparently did not go unnoticed by Democratic lawmakers, aides, strategists ...

Opinion: Our alarmism over AI is misplaced

ChatGPT is coming for your job. That’s the fear about the rapid advances in artificial intelligence. In a headline the other day, Axios warned of a “white-collar bloodbath.” The CEO of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic told the publication that AI could destroy half of all ...

Opinion: We do not need a ‘Big Short’ sequel

The movie “The Big Short” — dramatizing the reckless behavior in the banking and mortgage industries that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis — captures much of Wall Street’s misconduct but overlooks a central player in the collapse: the federal government, specifically through ...

Opinion: White House impermissibly punishing free speech

All attempts by the government to evaluate the content of speech and deter or punish what the government and its benefactors hate or fear is un-American, unconstitutional and unlawful; and if not stopped, will reduce the American people to serfdom. During the past three months, the Trump ...

Opinion: There is no going back to the left’s group think

After hubris comes nemesis, and after the frenzied excesses of the woke revolution came Donald Trump. The left didn’t lose everything with Trump’s second victory in 2024, but it did lose something that will be impossible to recover — broad cultural acquiescence to a radical agenda that ...