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.
To the editor: The recent Opinion column from Veronique De Rugy is problematic with the conclusions guiding younger generation in its assumptions that the Baby Boomers are taking excessive payouts from Social Security. Payments are not excessive by my calculations based on what I've actually ...
To the editor: I have no doubt that the current construction on Ninth Street is entirely necessary and a wise use of our tax dollars. But I see the fallout for excellent businesses like 9th Street Mexican Tacos and it makes me angry. Rebuilding our infrastructure shouldn't be so harmful to ...
“Cry me a river.” I gave a party with this theme on Jan. 20, 2025, the day Donald Trump was sworn in as president. Little did we know that 2025 would be an ocean of tears, the worst since 1968. Then, the tragic assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. broke hearts ...
Candace Owens has a very popular internet show in which she trots out deranged conspiracies about, among other things, the demonic nature of Jews, the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk (probably by Jews and their pawns, in her estimation) and the allegation that French President ...
“The presidency,” former President Franklin Roosevelt observed, “is not merely an administrative office. That is the least part of it. It is preeminently a place of moral leadership.” We learn as children to respect the office of the president and to pay attention to the conduct and the ...
Fifth Avenue swarms with tourists grinning at the fabulous scene as retailers cash in on the cheer. Christmas in New York is a Rockettes kick line of store windows awash in fantasy and light spectaculars. But something is missing from the big show this year. That would be Donald Trump. In ...