▼ Author Community Vote 10 days ago Richard Cohen The firing of Shirley Sherrod - and the cowardice of Tom Vilsack - — From everything I've read, I'm told that the firing of Shirley Sherrod, the once and probably future Agriculture Department official in Georgia, is about race or dishonest journalism or the vagaries of the 24-hour, incessant news cycle. 11 days ago Richard Cohen Who is Barack Obama? - — On Sunday, both The Post and the New York Times assembled more than 20 savants and asked them, as the Times put it, “How Can Obama Rebound?” Good question. Not only do six out of 10 voters “lack faith in the president to make the right decisions for the country … 31 days ago Richard Cohen Hamas is a threat to the Palestinian cause - — It's a pity that Israel, while substantially loosening its grip on Gaza, will continue to enforce a blockade when, with just a little imagination, it could insist on a deal with the activists once again steaming its way: You can proceed to Gaza if … 39 days ago Richard Cohen President Obama's enigmatic intellectualism - — It can seem that at the heart of Barack Obama's foreign policy is no heart at all. It consists instead of a series of challenges — of problems that need fixing, not wrongs that need to be righted. As Winston Churchill once said of a certain pudding … 53 days ago Richard Cohen What Helen Thomas missed - — Ah, another teachable moment! — This one comes to us from Helen Thomas, the longtime White House reporter and columnist who announced her retirement on Monday. Thomas, of Lebanese ancestry and almost 90, has never been shy about her anti-Israel views … 60 days ago Richard Cohen Did liberals get it wrong on crime? - — This is a good news, bad news column. The good news is that crime is again down across the nation — in big cities, small cities, flourishing cities and cities that are not for the timid. Surprisingly, this has happened in the teeth of the Great Recession … 88 days ago Richard Cohen Newt Gingrich, provocateur in chief - — He has a doctorate in the social sciences and taught briefly at the college level. He has been married three times, divorced twice and confessed to an extramarital affair. He has never worked for a profit-making organization, never served in the military … 158 days ago Richard Cohen Iran and the crazy factor - — A question relating to Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program: Is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad crazy like Adolf Hitler, or is he crazy like, of all people, Richard Nixon? — Nixon had a term for his own sort of craziness: “I call it the Madman Theory … 179 days ago Richard Cohen Obama administration is tone-deaf to concerns about terrorism - — There is almost nothing the Obama administration does regarding terrorism that makes me feel safer. Whether it is guaranteeing captured terrorists that they will not be waterboarded, reciting terrorists their rights … 193 days ago Richard Cohen In N.Y., race for Senate seat is a Democratic identity crisis - — Let me introduce myself. I am Harold Gillibrand or maybe I'm Kirsten Ford, a blending of the Democrats who want to be the next elected senator from New York. I am running to free the party from the clutches of Harry Reid …

See all...