“This is pure cowardice,” Letterman said. “They did not do the correct thing. They did not handle Stephen Colbert — the face of that network — in the way he deserves to have been handled.”

Loss of Stephen Colbert’s show is another sign of how we are losing our shared ties.

They wrote that the series of events raises “fresh questions about corruption in the Trump administration and President Trump’s willingness to accept payments from entities with significant policy in...