Richard Cohen
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Pining for ObamaJul 20, 2016 1:00 am - By Richard Cohen Calvin Trillin, the Mark Twain of our times, once wrote that sooner or later in a new administration, he starts to miss the preceding one. I know precis...
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Clinton survives another Salem trialJul 14, 2016 1:00 am - By Richard Cohen Just as there was never any doubt that Bill Clinton had sex with "that woman," there was never any doubt that Hillary Clinton mishandled her emails. And...
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Butterfly wings that didn't flutterJul 02, 2016 1:00 am - By Richard Cohen What shall we call the butterfly? The butterfly I have in mind is the one that illustrates chaos theory: It flutters its diaphanous wings, stirring the...
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A contrast in heroesJun 21, 2016 1:00 am - My heroes are not necessarily people of great ability but ones who did what I think I could not. Two contemporary men fall into that category. The first is the late Muha...
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The absurd availability of assault weaponsJun 14, 2016 1:00 am - A man walks into a nightclub with an AR-15. It is similar to the weapon I was trained on in the Army. It was designed for combat, to kill as many of the enemy as possibl...
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Ryan is no profile in courageJun 08, 2016 1:00 am - Out of the corner of his eye, Paul Ryan must frequently see the Robert A. Taft Memorial and Carillon at the base of Capitol Hill. The bell tower memorializes a senator w...
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Ryan is no profile in courageJun 08, 2016 1:00 am - Out of the corner of his eye, Paul Ryan must frequently see the Robert A. Taft Memorial and Carillon at the base of Capitol Hill. The bell tower memorializes a senator w...
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Bathroom bigotry, then and nowMay 25, 2016 1:00 am - She was Japanese, a temp sent over by some naive agency to fill a spot in the files department. Back then, before computers, an enormous room was devoted to files. This ...
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Conservatives deal with the devilMay 17, 2016 1:00 am - In the category of credit where credit is due, Donald Trump has been exactly right in one important respect. He attacked the Republican establishment as low-energy, cowe...
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In the White House, a dangerous prideMay 10, 2016 1:00 am - I've read a fair number of books on foreign policy in recent years, yet the one that's always made the greatest impression on me was assigned to our class in the sixth g...