Charles Krauthammer

Last week the internecine warfare in Iraq, already bewildering--Sunni versus Shiite, Kurd versus Arab, jihadist versus infidel, with various Iranians, Syrians and assorted freelancers thrown into the maelstrom--went bizarre. In...

Is there anything more depressing than yet another promise of energy independence in yet another State of the Union address? By my count, 24 of the 34 State of the...

If we were allied with an Iraqi government that, however weak, was truly national--cross-confessional and dedicated to fighting a two-front war against Baathist insurgents and Shiite militias--a surge of American...

When President Bush announced in August 2001 his restrictive funding decision for federal embryonic stem-cell research, he was widely attacked for an unwarranted intrusion of religion into scientific research. His...

Of the 6 billion people on Earth, not one killed more people than Saddam Hussein. And not just killed, but tortured and mutilated--often doing so with his own hands and...

ROUNDS: the ritual whereby a senior doctor goes from bed to bed seeing patients, trailed by a gaggle of students. ROUNDSMANSHIP: the art of distinguishing oneself from the gaggle with...

Now that the "realists" have ridden into town gleefully consigning the Bush doctrine to the ash heap of history, everyone has discovered the notion of interests, as if it were...

"Borat" is many things: a sidesplitting triumph of slapstick and scatology, a runaway moneymaker and budding franchise, the worst thing to happen to Kazakhstan since the Mongol hordes and, as...

"A republic, if you can keep it." --Benjamin Franklin, upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, in answer to "What have we got?" We have given the Iraqis a republic, and they...

How serious is the "thumpin"' the Republicans took on Tuesday? Losing one house is significant but hardly historic. Losing both houses, however, is defeat of a different order of magnitude,...