Richard Cohen
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History's repeating actsMar 11, 2014 5:05 am - Pardon the cliché - I think we have come upon a teachable moment. I am referring to the crisis in Ukraine and not just what it teaches us about the future but also what ...
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Losing his head in CrimeaMar 05, 2014 4:05 am - Vladimir Nabokov considered Anton Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog" one of the best short stories ever written. For what it's worth, I agree. The plot is a simple one. A...
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Susan Rice's false choiceFeb 26, 2014 4:05 am - Susan Rice ought to stay off "Meet the Press." The last time she was on she misrepresented what led to the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi. On Sunday, she was back,...
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In Syria, limited optionsFeb 19, 2014 4:05 am - The Obama Doctrine in Syria does not seem to be working. The country has fallen apart. Matters have gone from bad to worse. The secretary of state suggests that things a...
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Isolationism’s high priceFeb 05, 2014 4:00 am - This being the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, I have plunged into several books on the subject, most of them relating to what started it, and I have c...
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Our quagmire in AfghanistanJan 29, 2014 4:00 am - While watching the utterly gripping movie “Lone Survivor” recently, I comforted myself by noting that the four Navy SEALs engaged in a desperate firefight with the Afgha...
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Industry of health horrorsJan 22, 2014 4:00 am - On Jan. 1, Colorado began permitting the legal sale of marijuana. Even before that, the nation’s news media had swung into action, arguing just about everything — mariju...
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What the boycotts tell IsraelJan 15, 2014 4:00 am - Yet another academic group is mulling censuring Israel. This time it is the Modern Language Association. Just recently, it was the American Studies Association, which ca...
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Make a deal with SnowdenJan 08, 2014 4:00 am - Is Edward Snowden a traitor? The question has vexed me ever since he leaked some of America’s most valued secrets to various news organizations, including The Washington...
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Hillary Clinton’s unlucky yearDec 31, 2013 4:00 am - It is incumbent on me as a columnist to do one of those year-end things — the 10 best of this, the 10 worst of that or, as you will see, who had the worst year in politi...