Au Revoir but Not Adieu
For 12 years as a columnist I wore my “heart out after the unattainable.”
By Roger Cohen
Roger Cohen joined The New York Times in 1990. He was a foreign correspondent for more than a decade before becoming acting foreign editor on Sept. 11, 2001, and foreign editor six months later.
Since 2004, he has written a column for The International New York Times, formerly known as The International Herald Tribune. In 2009 he was named a columnist of The New York Times. His columns appear every Wednesday and Saturday.
Mr. Cohen has written “Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo,” an account of the wars of Yugoslavia’s destruction, and “Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble.” He has also co-written a biography of Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, “In the Eye of the Storm.” His family memoir, “The Girl From Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family,” was published in January 2015. Raised in South Africa and England, he is a naturalized American. Follow him on Twitter.
For 12 years as a columnist I wore my “heart out after the unattainable.”
By Roger Cohen
Trump wants to preserve, protect and defend only himself.
By Roger Cohen
Most Americans want him to go. He won’t listen.
By Roger Cohen
In western Colorado, the election is about “not having the government think for us, the right to protect ourselves.”
By Roger Cohen
It has become impossible for democracies to believe it is in their interest to take Trump’s America seriously.
By Roger Cohen
What wasn’t said at the debates was as telling as what was.
By Roger Cohen
We face a choice between a true renewal and a warped fantasy of the past.
By Roger Cohen
How politicians cave in an age of absolutist moral judgments.
By Roger Cohen
The essence of the American idea is unity under the law, through and despite difference.
By Roger Cohen
“There won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation.” How could the president makes his intentions any clearer?
By Roger Cohen
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