Opinion columnists

Michael Goodwin

Where have you gone, Barack Obama? Where is the sunny-side-up young man who promised to inspire and unite an unhappy nation? ...

What began as a minor legal squabble in a lower East Side City Council race has exposed a festering boil on the body politic - excessive coziness between nonprofit groups and the elected officials who sponsor them....

Mort Zuckerman

The unprecedented, improbable and indeed almost unimaginable global financial crisis has virtually put an end to the comfortable notion that American and Western capitalism would dominate the world economy. ...

Stanley Crouch

It is important to connect aggressive fools from our recent past - the Nation of Islam, the Black Panthers - with those paid to pretend that they believe the nonsense that the GOP has resorted to in order to battle he...

Errol Louis

Opponents of the death penalty have reason for hope this week. Two high-profile cases are exposing the sick, barbaric folly of execution in America....

Richard Cohen

Try this on for size: Palinism. What is it? It is an updated version of McCarthyism, which takes its name from the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin liar, demagogue and drunk....

Charles Krauthammer

My living will, which I have always considered more a literary than legal document, basically says: "I've had some good innings, thank you. If I have anything so much as a hangnail, pull the plug." ...

Dave Barry

This is a special time of year, as expressed so poetically in the lyrics to the haunting song "Summertime" from "Porgy and Bess":...