Richard Cohen
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The traffic jam that may tie-up Chris ChristieDec 18, 2013 4:00 am - On Sept. 9, access lanes to the George Washington Bridge from New Jersey to New York were suddenly closed. No warning was given -- nothing posted days before or announce...
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The open wound that is IsraelDec 11, 2013 4:00 am - In “My Promised Land,” Ari Shavit’s anguished book about Israel, there is plenty about the mistreatment of Palestinians — today, yesterday and always. Some of it is just...
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The Hillary alternativeDec 04, 2013 4:00 am - A recent issue of the New Republic had Elizabeth Warren on the cover with the headline “Hillary’s Nightmare?” It was one of a spate of such stories, all of them saying t...
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It’s the future to fearNov 27, 2013 4:00 am - For those who think that history is about the past, consider what’s before us today. Iran has agreed to an itsy-bitsy deal that will slow its march toward a possible nuc...
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The JFK in my mirrorNov 20, 2013 4:00 am - Sitting around one day with Ben Bradlee, then the executive editor of The Washington Post, a bunch of us were talking about John F. Kennedy — his achievements but also h...
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Christie’s Tea Party problemNov 13, 2013 4:00 am - The day after Chris Christie, the cuddly moderate conservative, won a landslide re-election as the Republican governor of Democratic New Jersey, I took the Internet Expr...
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What art says about the pastNov 05, 2013 7:45 am - I sometimes think I have spent years unlearning what I learned earlier in my life. For instance, it was not George A. Custer who was attacked at the Little Bighorn. It w...
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A question of competenceOct 31, 2013 5:00 am - Where is Casey Stengel when we need him? In 1962 as the manager of the brand new and determinedly hapless New York Mets — 40 wins, 120 losses — he looked up and down his...
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Snowden, reconsideredOct 23, 2013 5:00 am - What are we to make of Edward Snowden? I know what I once made of him. He was no real whistle-blower, I wrote, but “ridiculously cinematic” and “narcissistic” as well. A...
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The crisis of indifferenceOct 16, 2013 5:00 am - This is how it happened. The migrants came from Eritrea, which is on the Horn of Africa and where the per capita income is about $800 a year. They sold everything they h...