Richard Cohen
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Isolationism, reduxJan 03, 2012 4:00 am - The blogger Andrew Sullivan, typing faster than he could think, endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican presidential nomination. (He took it back, but we’ll get to that lat...
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Seeing life in the obit pageDec 21, 2011 4:00 am - It is a Monday morning and I begin my day, as I usually do, with the obituaries. This is a particularly rich day — Vaclav Havel, the novelist, playwright and former pres...
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No time to turn inwardDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - We are coming up on bad times. Nationalism is surging throughout Europe. In the Arab world, spring is suddenly winter and the sects, the tribes, the clans, the religious...
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President’s good fortune is piling upDec 07, 2011 7:00 am - It is said that when Napoleon was asked what qualities he looked for in his generals, he responded, “Just one — that they be lucky.” This is a quality President Obama ha...
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No profit in a soft spotNov 30, 2011 4:00 am - Mitt Romney runs for president with the eye of a venture capitalist. He sees the profit in certain positions, discards those that are no longer profitable, and moves on....
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Something rotten in IowaNov 23, 2011 4:00 am - Until the Reform Act of 1832, more than 100 members of the British Parliament were elected from districts that had very few people. These were called “Rotten Boroughs,” ...
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Still in the ‘Mad Men’ eraNov 16, 2011 3:00 am - We are deep into the presidential election season — 10 debates on the Republican side, constant campaigning on the Democratic side — and all we can say we have learned f...
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The culture that defines usNov 09, 2011 4:00 am - Last month, the Financial Times announced on Page 1 that Volkswagen “will become the world’s biggest carmaker this year ... (and) replace Toyota in the industry’s top sp...
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Selling smoke on Wall StreetNov 02, 2011 5:00 am - As a mere youth, I bought a used car in New York to drive to California to be with the woman of my dreams. Inexplicably, she decided to rush back to New York and so I pr...
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Crying wolf on anti-SemitismOct 26, 2011 5:00 am - Reckless Jew that I am, I muscled my way into the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Lower Manhattan despite multiple reports of virulent and conceivably lethal anti-Semit...