Richard Cohen
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Truman was right to use the bombAug 19, 2015 1:00 am - Should the United States apologize for the nuclear bombing of Japan at the very end of World War II? The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 70 years ago this month, kill...
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All on Clinton's emails that's fit -- or not -- to printAug 12, 2015 1:01 am - The New York Times on Sunday printed 2,973 words explaining how the fuss over Hillary Clinton's emails began and how it developed and what it means and why the newspaper...
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Biden stalked by irony of his ageAug 04, 2015 1:00 am - Some years ago, I worked out with Joe Biden. He lifted weights while I pedaled a stationary bike and I can report that the vice president of the United States, if he has...
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Uber and who's getting run over by technologyJul 29, 2015 1:00 am - Uber just ran over the mayor of New York. Bill de Blasio wanted to limit the company's expansion, citing traffic and complaints from the taxi industry, which is, as the ...
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The blunt language of historyJul 15, 2015 1:00 am - Georgia seceded from the Union in January 1861, and spelled out the reasons with a statement that's 3,318 words long, including 35 references to "slave" and "slavery." S...
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'Witness Blumenthal' subjected to Benghazi beatingJul 07, 2015 1:00 am - Sometime soon, the House Select Committee on Benghazi will vote on whether to release the testimony of Sidney Blumenthal who, let us make no bones about it, is solemnly ...
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The GOP's view from under the sandJun 30, 2015 1:00 am - If you're old enough to recall how the landslide election of Lyndon Johnson over the hapless Barry Goldwater supposedly spelled the end of the Republican Party, or how R...
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Fight the Islamic State now or laterJun 17, 2015 1:00 am - If you stare at the Islamic State areas of Iraq and Syria long enough - a bit like Nietzsche's staring into the abyss - it will not exactly stare back at you, but it wil...
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The ugly effort to boycott IsraelJun 10, 2015 1:00 am - The chief executive of Orange, the global telecom company based in France, says he is going to Israel, surely to apologize for recently saying that, if he could, he woul...
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Profiting from the presidencyJun 02, 2015 1:00 am - Gerald Ford was very briefly vice president of the United States and, following the resignation of Richard Nixon, somewhat less briefly president of the United States. H...