Guest Commentary: Cokie Roberts was the best kind of D.C. insider
The bright, bold line that runs through Washington separates the party of R's from the party of D's. But there is another line -- a more subtle but very pronounced,...
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Guest Commentary: “Lion King” remake has terrifying implications
There are no civilians in 21st-century warfare because the hottest battlefield is the public mind. The front runs between your ears, between your neighbor's, between mine. The enemy's objective (and...
Guest Commentary: Mad magazine is dying — maybe we should worry
The demise of Mad magazine is hardly a surprise. Times are tricky for print publications in general -- all the more so for a title targeted with exquisite precision at...
Von Drehle: How Democrats can respond when President Trump cries socialism 聽
A very long time ago, via a series of unlikely turns, I found myself -- a 19-year-old nobody from the Denver suburbs -- splitting a bottle of expensive champagne with...
Guest Commentary: United States lifted the world without losing ground
Given the pace of change in the world today, it boggles the mind to think that we still live in the shadow of an event 75 years in the past....
Guest Commentary: Pope Benedict shows us how the Catholic Church went so terribly off-course
There was consternation among Vatican-watchers in 2013 when Pope Benedict XVI became the first pontiff in centuries to resign the papacy rather than die on the job. Would it not...
Guest commentary: Has meat met its match?
Missouri Farm Bureau members were likely startled by the recent "Commentary" in their email queues. The farm bureau's Eric Bohl reported on his visit to a St. Louis-area Burger King,...
Guest commentary: Abolish the electoral college? Here’s a better idea for Democrats
Pledging to abolish the electoral college is a sure crowd-pleaser with Democratic voters this year. It's easy to understand why. Twice in the past 20 years -- including the last...
Guest commentary: Twitter, the crystal meth of newsrooms
I saw the future of political reporting half a dozen years ago, and I've been hoping to unsee it ever since.
The only solid bet is on Trump’s panic (but the op-ed was probably Jared)
Bookies set the odds at 12-to-1 that Jared Kushner wrote the "Resistance Inside" bombshell, and if I were a gambling man, I might take a piece of that action. After...