There you have it: two Times columnists asserting exactly opposite views.

The Times columnist turns his attention to possible business-friendly solutions to global warming.

Q. I want to be a Times columnist in, let's say, 20 years.

As for publishing roundups of the all-star Times columnists' best lines, that's a pretty good idea.

Times columnists repeatedly extolled "the great majority of peaceful Muslims."

A Times columnist attacks the Bush administration's approach to message management.

The congressman told a Times columnist that "from the start, I was willing to lose rather than to win the wrong way."

The Times columnist indicts the Bush administration's approach to message management.

In 2003 he became a Times columnist as well as contributing features and articles to a wide variety of publications.

Frank Rich is a Times columnist and a senior writer for the magazine.