Richard Cohen
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Stewart smacks the wrong messengerMar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - What Jon Stewart needs is Jon Stewart. He could use a droll comedian to temper his ferocity and correct him when he's wrong, as he was about the financial media, particu...
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Torture views evolve as past meets presentJan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - "The past is a different country. They do things differently there." So goes a wise aphorism that should be applied to the debate over whether those who authorized and u...
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Time to shift heavy responsibilityJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - By morning of that first day, even before he awoke, the overseas markets - the Nikkei, the DAX, the FTSE 100 - had moved and the world had changed. He kissed his wife an...
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Condemn the system along with the houseJan 13, 2009 10:00 pm - The French have the comely Marianne, the British have the fetching Britannia, and we have the welcoming Lady Liberty. May I now suggest, at least for the duration of the...
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Well-read Bush merely seeks vindicationJan 01, 2009 10:00 pm - In what without a doubt is the most astounding op-ed piece of the year, Karl Rove reveals that his friend and former boss, George W. Bush, has read probably hundreds of ...
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Condemning Mugabe is not enoughDec 09, 2008 10:00 pm - What I would like to do - not that you've asked - is have a Predator drone circle over Robert Mugabe's luxurious villa until this monster of a dictator who has brought s...
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Pardon makes Holder wrong guy for jobDec 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Soon after Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, the former president and I had a brief telephone conversation. I had been downright heated about the pardon, a lot angrier th...
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Obama rising above primary squabblesNov 25, 2008 10:00 pm - The unsurprising moderation of Barack Obama has caught many people by surprise. At this point, he seems intent on restoring a version of the old Clinton presidency - Hil...
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Dream cabinet starts with Gore at topNov 11, 2008 10:00 pm - If there is a single appointment Barack Obama could make to signal how dramatically things will change in Washington, it would be to name Albert Gore Jr. - former congre...
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Harlem knows how change can happenNov 09, 2008 10:00 pm - Up in Harlem, on the boulevard named for Malcolm X, stands the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and it was to its Langston Hughes Auditorium, named for th...