Richard Cohen
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Rice just a surrogate for attacks on ObamaDec 05, 2012 4:00 am - In 1953, an Army officer by the name of Irving Peress was promoted from captain to major. Peress was a leftist, possibly a communist, and word of his advancement in rank...
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No bonding with this 007Nov 28, 2012 4:00 am - In the new James Bond movie, “Skyfall,” Daniel Craig takes off his shirt and examines his wounds. There appear to be two of them — small holes on his skin from bullets f...
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The callousness of HamasNov 21, 2012 4:00 am - Of all the points of disagreement between Israel and Hamas, maybe the most profound is this one: Israel cares more about sparing innocent lives — including those of Pale...
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Still the best man for the jobNov 14, 2012 4:00 am - The story is told of the French diplomat in the bad days of the Cold War who was approached by a Soviet agent and shown pictures of himself having sex with a woman most ...
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Lessons from a long campaignNov 05, 2012 12:37 pm - As (something) of a public service, I now offer my Children’s Guide to the 2012 Elections — or lessons young people can learn from American politics. I offer this in the...
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The reluctant presidentNov 01, 2012 10:52 am - One of the more melancholy moments of the presidential campaign occurred for me in a screening room. The film was Rory Kennedy’s documentary about her mother, Ethel — th...
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Skating on electoral thin iceOct 22, 2012 7:40 pm - I’ve voted all my life in either Washington, D.C., or New York state. Most of that time, my vote didn’t matter one bit and this year is no exception. New York, where I n...
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Empty talk on SyriaOct 17, 2012 5:00 am - In the frantic search for bipartisan agreement in Washington, I can report something of a breakthrough. Although they will not admit it, both Mitt Romney and Barack Obam...
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Desperately seeking the real ObamaOct 11, 2012 5:00 am - Last week something notable happened. The Daily Caller, a conservative website, came up with a tape of President Obama speaking in the spring of 2007 to an audience of b...
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Muffling the drums of warOct 03, 2012 5:00 am - If you want to read a cautionary tale about whether Israel will attack Iran, I suggest Kurt Eichenwald’s “500 Days,” which is not about that question at all. It describe...