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.
Though this year’s smashing Democratic victory was unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes, perhaps the most striking thing is that on the morning after, it all felt so reassuringly normal. The election went forward at all 78,000 polling places. Hundreds of thousands of election workers ...
A funny thing happened on the way to sticking it to the billionaires. Voters in the largest liberal state in America decided not to stick ‘em. With all the election results to peruse, it would be easy to overlook one from California. Voters there by a 53% to 47% margin rejected a proposed ...
To the editor: In the Nov. 6 Journal-World, Chad Lawhorn wrote that relationships begin or change with language used. Negative language gets negative results; positive language gets positive results. The first step in a relationship depends on how language used fosters fair ...
I regret to inform you that we are now one week into the 2028 presidential election cycle. This is the stage where various factions try to shape the conventional wisdom to support their particular agenda. For Democrats, that’s a difficult process, because they so wildly overperformed in the ...
Some interesting numbers: New York’s 13th Congressional District, covering northern Manhattan and part of the Bronx, is 52% Hispanic, 23% Black and only 14% white. Yet in June’s Democratic primary, voters dumped five-term Rep. Adriano Espaillat, head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, ...
To the editor: Never underestimate the rage of a country scorned. Cathy Molineux, Lawrence
