Richard Cohen
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The president America never hadJun 21, 2012 5:00 am - My mother could have been president of the United States. She could have been chairman of General Motors, CEO of Apple in the morning and Google in the afternoon — and h...
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What the leakers have wroughtJun 13, 2012 5:00 am - Pity the poor Obama administration leakers. They impart their much-cherished secrets to make their man look good and then, at the first chirp of criticism, are ordered t...
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Romney’s faith is his businessJun 06, 2012 5:00 am - The most popular item on The Washington Post’s website on Sunday was a very good article by Jason Horowitz headlined “Is Mitt Romney’s Mormonism fair game?” The answer, ...
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The wonder of our changeMay 30, 2012 5:00 am - I started off a recent day by reading the obituary of Wesley Brown. I did not know him and, in fact, had never heard of him. He was the first African-American to graduat...
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The Mitt you see is what you getMay 23, 2012 5:00 am - For all of Mitt Romney’s talk of what he would do on Day One in the White House — bomb Iran or was it Planned Parenthood? -- there’s just as good a chance he would be ta...
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Mayor Bloomberg’s 5,600 lives savedMay 15, 2012 1:05 pm - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a new kind of crime statistic. It is not the astoundingly low number of murders committed in his fair city — 471 in 2009 vs. about 2...
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Obama could learn from LBJMay 09, 2012 5:00 am - Barack Obama has read and been influenced by Robert A. Caro’s classic biography of Robert Moses, “The Power Broker.” From the evidence, it is far from clear, though, tha...
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How long must Syrians wait?May 01, 2012 5:00 am - The United States seems to have two plans to deal with what is fast becoming a civil war in Syria. Plan A calls for the full implementation of the U.N. cease-fire and th...
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The luxury we don’t have in SyriaApr 25, 2012 5:00 am - About a month ago the European Union, showing it will not be trifled with, barred Bashar al-Assad’s wife, Asma, and other women in his immediate family from shopping for...
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Mitt Romney’s business planApr 18, 2012 1:00 am - Among the attributes I most envy in a public man (or woman) is the ability to lie. If that ability is coupled with no sense of humor, you have the sort of man who can be...