Richard Cohen
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Crime and the recessionJun 01, 2011 5:00 am - “Counter to the prevailing expectation that crime would increase during a recession,” it actually dropped last year and violent crime is now at nearly a 40-year low. So ...
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The urgency of now in Arab-Israeli relationsMay 25, 2011 5:00 am - Every man has a father, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s is worth knowing. He is Benzion Netanyahu, born 101 years ago in what was soon to become Poland and living now in what h...
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All limbered up and stretching the truthMay 18, 2011 1:00 am - A Washington Post feature — “The Fact Checker” — is possibly the most powerful force for good since Clark Kent encountered a phone booth. The other day it laid into Newt...
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The dysfunction of American exceptionalismMay 10, 2011 12:00 am - “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in 1903 — and I will not quibble. But the problem of the 21st century is th...
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A general deserving of no honorsApr 26, 2011 12:00 am - It has taken a while, but it’s about time Robert E. Lee lost the Civil War. The South of course was defeated on the battlefield in 1865, yet the Lee legend — swaddled in...
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Trump may be a 2012 force to reckon withApr 19, 2011 12:00 am - Back in 1990, Ivana Trump told her divorce lawyer Michael Kennedy that “from time to time, her husband (Donald Trump) reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, ‘My Ne...
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Retracted report opens new divisions on IsraelApr 05, 2011 12:00 am - It came as (almost) no surprise to me that Japanese utility workers remained at their crippled and highly toxic nuclear plant even at the risk of death. It came as (almo...
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The human cost of apathyMar 29, 2011 12:00 am - In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed an international conference at Evian-les-Bains, France, to deal with the urgent problem of Jewish refugees from Nazi Ge...
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The Berle Doctrine of mixed signalsMar 22, 2011 12:00 am - In the Oval Office, President Obama keeps busts of his heroes — Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. He should add one of Milton Berle, the so-called Mr. Televisio...
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Dawdling over a natural-born killerMar 15, 2011 12:00 am - On Dec. 21, 1988, Moammar Gaddafi killed Theodora Cohen. That’s one way of putting it. Cohen was one of 259 passengers and crew on Pan Am Flight 103. I remember her for ...