Richard Cohen
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Still haunted by past, but looking to the futureMar 10, 2015 5:35 am - SELMA, Ala. -- On one of my flights here, sheer luck took a liking to me. I got seated next to Thelma Adair, a 94-year-old black woman coming down from New York City for...
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Israel's moral argument is at riskMar 03, 2015 12:00 am - Back in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party have run a campaign ad reminding voters of another time when the U.S. and Israel differed. That was...
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Obama wise not to change nature of intra-Muslim fightFeb 25, 2015 12:00 am - Looking around the world, I see little but debacles. Vladimir Putin has his way with Ukraine, treating Europe and the United States with the contempt they have so assidu...
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Scott Walker and his disappointing dodgeFeb 17, 2015 11:17 am - If I were a Republican, I think I might have supported Scott Walker for president. The man has a nice smile, nearly flunked French in college (so did I) and, most import...
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The universality of evilFeb 13, 2015 12:00 am - In 1916, a man by the name of Jesse Washington was accused of rape and murder and swiftly convicted. Washington was black and the woman was white and the location was Wa...
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Anti-Semitism: The most durable conspiracy theoryFeb 04, 2015 12:57 pm - The title of my recently published book is "Israel: Is It Good for the Jews?" When I started writing it I did not know how I was going to answer that question. The more ...
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Cohen: Netanyahu visit may cost Israel America's liberalsJan 28, 2015 4:55 am - It would not surprise me if at the next Republican National Convention Benjamin Netanyahu took a seat in the delegates-from-abroad section. The Israeli leader has both a...
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Disrupting the American DreamJan 21, 2015 12:05 am - Mercedes-Benz wants to develop a driverless car. Google already has one. This is exceedingly bad news for auto body shops, ambulance-chasing lawyers and others. Soon, tr...
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Obama's slap at FranceJan 13, 2015 12:05 am - In Paris on Sunday, the United States really led from behind - so far behind that President Obama and other important U.S. officials stayed stateside as 40 other world l...
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The historical distoritions that stain 'Selma'Jan 07, 2015 12:05 am - Before I came to dislike the movie "Selma," I was deeply moved by it. Twice it brought me to tears. A crane shot of Martin Luther King leading thousands of demonstrators...