Richard Cohen
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The real IkeApr 09, 2012 5:53 pm - One day in 1967, Dwight D. Eisenhower came to New York for the opening of an exhibit of his paintings at the old Huntington Hartford Museum on Columbus Circle. Ike, lik...
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A lesson we fail to learnApr 04, 2012 1:00 am - We are coming up on a melancholy anniversary. On April 5, 1992, Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sucic were shot and killed. They were attending a peace rally in Sarajevo when ...
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A plea to lead on SyriaMar 28, 2012 5:00 am - For over a year now, the best minds in Washington have assured me (and you) that the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is about to fall. These assurances are always deliv...
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The long and short of Israel’s dilemmaMar 21, 2012 1:00 am - Nations have doctrines. The Soviet Union had the Brezhnev Doctrine and the United States had the Monroe Doctrine, among others. Even little Israel has one. I call it th...
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Change you shouldn’t believe inMar 12, 2012 12:22 pm - At some point while watching HBO’s absolutely smashing (and terrifying) movie “Game Change,” it occurred to me that Sarah Palin has ruined America. The movie has been sc...
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The passing of a bomb-throwerMar 07, 2012 12:00 am - It is not nice to speak ill of the dead, my mother once told me. But it is OK, I think, to speak ill of those who praise the dead when the deceased was best known for sl...
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The plight of Hamza KashgariFeb 22, 2012 5:00 am - Keep your eye on Hamza Kashgari. He’s the 23-year-old former columnist for Saudi Arabia’s Al-Bilad newspaper who had the extremely bad judgment to tweet an imaginary con...
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Obama in denial about American influenceFeb 14, 2012 4:00 am - The usually reliable sources tell us that President Obama picked up a recent edition of the highly reliable New Republic and came away impressed. He read a lengthy essay...
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The mother’s milk of politicsJan 18, 2012 4:00 am - Sheldon Adelson is supposedly a bad man. The gambling mogul gave $5 million to a Newt Gingrich-loving super PAC and this enabled Gingrich to maul Mitt Romney — a touch o...
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The Reggie in the GOP raceJan 13, 2012 4:00 am - Mitt Romney is starting to get on my nerves. He reminds me of Reggie, the rich, handsome, athletic and effortlessly superficial character in the “Archie” comics. He does...