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: Feeling sorry for Elon Musk is not impossible

Elon Musk may have thought that dropping more than $250 million into Trump’s reelection campaign would have bought permanent affection from the president. No, it was a show of obeisance that labeled Musk as one to be played. Besides, in Trump’s dog-eat-dog view of wealth, the far-richer ...

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 ...

Letter to the editor: Thankful for Busker Fest

To the editor: If you are one who stays up to date with national and international news, then you know it is mostly horrible. It can leave a person feeling depressed. Certainly it does not engender good feelings. If you are one who stays up to date with local news, then you know that the ...

Letter to the editor: More empathy and less hate

To the editor: I was left deeply saddened by the opinion piece “Have we lost all our humanity and empathy?” by Georgia Garvey on May 28, where she bemoaned all the hate in our current political system. I was even sadder when I read the article on the memorial for Sarah Milgrim, one of ...