Charles Krauthammer – Page 3

If Donald Trump ran the world …

May 11, 2019 at 3:15 a.m.

Foreign policy does not determine American elections. Indeed, of all Western countries, we are the least interested in the subject. The reason is simple: We haven't had to be. Our...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waits to be interviewed by Fox News at a diner on April 5, 2016, in Wauwatosa, Wis.

Trump supporters are the real wild card

May 11, 2019 at 3:12 a.m.

Yes, the big Wisconsin story is Ted Cruz's crushing 13-point victory. And yes, it greatly improves his chances of denying Donald Trump a first-ballot convention victory, which may turn out...

From left, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz; Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is a Democratic candidate for president; Republican Donald Trump; former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, a Democratic candidate for president.

Cruz, Sanders, Trump and Clinton in Final Four: Who’s got game?

May 11, 2019 at 3:11 a.m.

After dozens of contests featuring cliffhangers, buzzer-beaters and a ton of flagrant fouls, we're down to the Final Four: Sanders, Clinton, Cruz and Trump. (If John Kasich pulls a miracle,...

Protesters speak out during a Donald Trump campaign rally March 11, 2016, inside the UIC Pavilion.

There’s an air of menace — fueled on both sides — about this campaign season

May 11, 2019 at 3:08 a.m.

By international and historical standards, political violence is exceedingly rare in the United States. The last serious outburst was 1968 with its bloody Democratic convention riots. By that standard, 2016...

A supporter wears a T-shirt featuring Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders during a campaign rally Jan. 30, 2016, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Bernie Sanders, the Holocaust and the Jewish identity

May 11, 2019 at 3:07 a.m.

Bernie Sanders is the most successful Jewish candidate for the presidency ever. It's a rare sign of the health of our republic that no one seems to much care or...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at campaign stop, Thursday, March 2, 2016, in Portland, Maine.

Time to get hard-core about dumping Trump

May 11, 2019 at 3:06 a.m.

What happened to the evangelicals? They were supposed to be the bedrock of the Ted Cruz candidacy. Yet on Super Tuesday he lost them to Donald Trump. Cruz still did...

An aerial view shows nearly completed construction within the Fiery Cross Reef, which is part of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

As Obama fiddles around, he’s content to let the world fall apart

May 11, 2019 at 3:04 a.m.

State of the world, Year Eight of Barack Obama: (1) In the South China Sea, on a speck of land of disputed sovereignty far from its borders, China has just...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks as he along with Justice Stephen Breyer testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing in October 2011.

This is Mitch McConnell’s moment: Win one for Nino

May 11, 2019 at 3:03 a.m.

Let's understand something about the fight to fill the Supreme Court seat of Antonin "Nino" Scalia. This is about nothing but raw power. Any appeal you hear to high principle...

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders win New Hampshire primary Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016.

Trump and Sanders show that magic sells

August 21, 2019 at 6:10 p.m.

The New Hampshire results have solidified the reigning cliche that the 2016 campaign is an anti-establishment revolt of both the left and the right. Largely overlooked, however, is the role...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds up a sheet of paper that blew off his lectern during a campaign event at Hampshire Hills Athletic Club on Feb. 2, 2016, in Milford, Iowa.

Donald Trump’s political platform? Donald Trump.

May 11, 2019 at 3:00 a.m.

The reigning idiocy of the current political season is the incessant tossing around of "establishment," an epithet now descending into meaninglessness. Its most recent abuse is by Donald Trump supporters...

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