Richard Cohen
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Love and 'The Normal Heart'May 21, 2014 5:05 am - Eddie called himself a private detective, although all he really did was repossess cars. He would show up around 4 p.m. at the cafe where I worked after school, have his...
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Hung up on BenghaziMay 14, 2014 5:05 am - Tuning the car radio some weeks back, I heard the president denounced as a moron. I was shocked. I had reached some right-wing talker and he was carrying on about someth...
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Leading out against capital punishmentMay 08, 2014 5:05 am - The term "moral suasion" has fallen into disuse. Its heyday came during the Eisenhower administration when the genial president, a bit soft on institutional racism, fail...
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Hamas' outrageous charterApr 30, 2014 5:05 am - Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day has passed. But then, as far as I'm concerned, it is always Holocaust Remembrance Day - a perpetual and frustratingly futile attempt t...
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Familiar parallels in UkraineApr 23, 2014 5:05 am - Is Andranik Migranyan right? The head of a think tank associated with Vladimir Putin wrote the following in response to critics who liken the Russian president to Adolf ...
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Rand Paul's amateur hourApr 16, 2014 5:05 am - Not to put too fine a point on it, but what has Rand Paul ever done? Oh, sure, he's a member of the U.S. Senate, but only a freshman, and it's the only political office ...
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Rumsfeld's battle with truthApr 09, 2014 1:05 am - There is a moment, a mere moment, when Donald Rumsfeld's eyes well up and he chokes a bit. This comes in Errol Morris' documentary "The Unknown Known," in which Rumsfeld...
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The shame of General MotorsApr 02, 2014 5:05 am - He was known as "Engine Charlie." And while Charles Erwin Wilson was both the longtime president of General Motors and Dwight D. Eisenhower's secretary of defense, he ha...
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One can be the deadliest numberMar 26, 2014 5:05 am - "'Sophie, Sophie, don't die! Stay alive for the children,' the dying Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand urged his wife as she slumped over him in the open-topped sports c...
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The charter conspiratorsMar 19, 2014 5:05 am - In the war between the rich and the poor, I'm enlisting on the side of the underdog - the rich. What a drubbing they've been taking! Across the nation, but particularly ...