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.
The question was asked repeatedly over the past few years: Was 2016 a fluke? Most Democrats and Never-Trump Republicans thought so. After all, Trump won by the slimmest of margins in a few pivotal swing states and lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million. Then Trump’s tenure in ...
Yes, Donald Trump took all seven battleground states and the electoral votes to go with them. This time he also won the popular vote, unlike in 2016. But let’s put all that in perspective. Trump took Wisconsin by less than one point. He won Michigan by only a point and a half. He did ...
Donald Trump won the election. The House and Senate are in Republican hands. That means the GOP now owns the debt and its consequences. This responsibility, while too much for past politicians, presents the opportunity of a lifetime: namely, to be the ones who put the government back on fiscal ...
The election is over. So where are we? The calendar says we’re in 2024. But the history books say 1924, give or take a few years. Under the Johnson-Reed Act, aka the Immigration Act of 1924, immigrants from Asia were banned. Entry into the U.S. by Jews and Catholics from Poland, Italy and ...
The biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse thundered in on Election Day. Almost as if they conspired to make now-President-elect Donald Trump win, two are Democrats and two are Republicans. The four played distinct roles in a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. The first Horseman is, ...
Editor’s note: Sen. John Thune, who is mentioned below, was elected Senate majority leader on Wednesday. In September, I wrote, “No matter who wins, the next president will declare that they have a ‘mandate’ to do something. And they will be wrong.” I was wrong in one sense. Now, I ...
