Richard Cohen
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Mr. Cool turns coldAug 10, 2011 3:00 am - In her autobiography, Helen Gahagan Douglas recalled telling President Franklin D. Roosevelt about her visits to the camps of migrant workers. She was especially poignan...
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Green with tea party envyAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - I suffer from tea party envy. There is little about the actual party I like and there are some members I abhor, but I am jealous of its sense of purpose, its determinati...
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Headaches are the least of GOP’s worriesJul 27, 2011 5:00 am - For a second, I could not believe my eyes. I saw a headline, or at least I thought I did, which went like this: “Pawlenty Questions Bachmann’s Fitness.” I rose out of my...
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Just deserts for ‘Citizen Murdoch’Jul 19, 2011 3:00 am - It’s a pity Orson Welles is no longer with us. He would be the perfect one to play Rupert Murdoch in the movie about the current newspaper scandal in Britain. Welles, of...
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Victim of a digital mobJul 13, 2011 12:00 am - A date has been set — and the candidates chosen — for an election to fill the seat of the disgraced Anthony Weiner. To my disappointment, none of the candidates is Weine...
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The cultic tendencies of the GOPJul 07, 2011 12:00 am - Someone ought to study the Republican Party. I am not referring to yet another political scientist but to a mental health professional, preferably a specialist in the po...
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Andrew Cuomo beats the oddsJun 28, 2011 9:00 pm - Years ago, I played some pool with Andrew Cuomo. As we circled the table, Cuomo, who was then housing secretary, told me how he was going to become the next governor of ...
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Time to leave AfghanistanJun 21, 2011 9:00 pm - Not long after Afghanistan goes off its meds — American and other troops, oodles of aid, civilian technicians and so much cash that airplanes have to strain to smuggle i...
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Prince of the wagging fingerJun 15, 2011 12:00 am - As best I can recall, I first met Saudi Arabia’s Prince Turki al-Faisal at a private home in Washington years ago. I found him stern and humorless, sometimes even bitter...
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The oxymoronic presidentJun 08, 2011 4:00 am - I once worked for an editor who banned the word “oxymoron.” I don’t know why. It’s a good word, meaning a contradiction in terms. The dictionary offers some examples: “w...