Richard Cohen
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The GOP’s brain drainSep 26, 2012 5:00 am - In 1980 Ronald Reagan won the Republican nomination. He beat a future president, George H.W. Bush, two future Senate majority leaders, Howard Baker and Bob Dole, and two...
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The price of leading from behindSep 19, 2012 5:00 am - What lessons can be learned from events in Libya? That nothing good will come out of the Arab Spring? That Arabs are volatile, easily excitable and prone to acting out? ...
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The poor, now that’s another storySep 12, 2012 5:00 am - When I was 19, I lived in a furnished room on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. My kitchen table was the bathtub with a cover over it. I had no shower and the common toilet w...
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All talk, no muscle on SyriaAug 15, 2012 1:53 pm - The awful things that could have happened had the United States intervened in Syria are now happening anyway. The insurrection has become a civil war. Neighboring countr...
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A difference beyond questionAug 08, 2012 5:00 am - A difference beyond question Before the Jews of Hungary were emancipated in the 19th century, they were not permitted to own land. By the end of the century, they were ...
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The right’s blind eye on government spendingAug 01, 2012 5:00 am - My boyhood friend Jack became a doctor -- and a conservative. He had gone to public schools, attended college with the help of a government scholarship, went to medical ...
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What the tax returns won’t tell usJul 24, 2012 11:48 am - To paraphrase Rhett Butler, I don’t care if Mitt Romney releases more of his tax returns. I expect to learn nothing from them, aside from the fact that he is very rich a...
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A debate we shouldn’t be havingJul 18, 2012 5:00 am - To fully appreciate how silly the presidential campaign has become, envision a robot doing the job of a displaced American worker instead of the low-wage laborer abroad ...
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Terror among the richJul 11, 2012 5:00 am - WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. -- It was a Romney weekend in the Hamptons. He went to three fundraisers, reportedly hauling in more than $3 million from the terrified rich who,...
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The unexciting presidential campaignJun 27, 2012 5:00 am - If the presidential campaign were a TV program, it would have been canceled by now. Viewers have clicked off, stupefied by a campaign that has one overriding issue, the ...