Opinion

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: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rode in

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, ...

Opinion: Republicans falling for mandate trap

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 ...

Letter to the editor: Mona Charen is very misguided

To the editor: This is in response to Ms. Mona Charen’s claim that President Trump’s policies will transform the United States into a Third-World country (“Voters wanted change; they’ll get it,” Journal-World, Nov. 10). A standard method in business research to assess the impact ...

Letter to the editor: Trump won and that’s a good thing

To the editor: The election responses in the Journal-World were expected. The fact the people of America overwhelmingly reelected Donald Trump was a clear message that what has been happening in the USA over the last four years was not working. It’s amazing to me the Journal-World seems ...

Opinion: Dems should pick battles wisely

On a recent CNN panel, a Republican strategist cited a random article from last June about liberals having established a “resistance” to a Trump second term. “Can we just have a couple of years of peace for the Republicans and President Trump to do what they promised to do because the ...

Opinion: I don’t want to hear about this again

Now that the 2024 presidential election has come to its inevitable if protracted conclusion, can we turn the page? Donald Trump won so we won’t have to sit through years of conspiracy theories about how Democrats have been training tiny monkeys to live in the ballot scanners and reject all ...