Charles Krauthammer

It's no secret that I think the Harriet Miers nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court was a mistake. Nonetheless, when asked how she will do in the hearings, my answer...

While official Washington has been poring over Harriet Miers' long-ago doings on the Dallas City Council and parsing the Byzantine comings and goings of the Patrick J. Fitzgerald grand jury,...

When in 1962 Edward Moore Kennedy ran for his brother's seat in the Senate, his opponent famously said that if Kennedy's name had been Edward Moore, his candidacy would have...

"Harry, what the hell are you doing campaigning for that crippled son-of-a-bitch that killed my son Joe?" [Joseph P.] Kennedy said, referring to his oldest son, who had died in...

In September 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt brokered the Treaty of Portsmouth (New Hampshire), which settled the Russo-Japanese War. Settling an extra-hemispheric dispute between foreign powers marked the emergence of the...

In our lifetime, has there been a more politically poisonous Supreme Court decision than Roe vs. Wade? Set aside for a moment your thoughts on the substance of the ruling....

In less enlightened times, there was no catastrophe independent of human agency. When the plague or some other natural disaster struck, witches were burned, Jews were massacred and all felt...

The world has noted--though it will not credit and will soon forget--those deeply moving scenes of the Israeli evacuation of Gaza: the discipline and self-control of the Israeli army; the...

The Israeli abandonment of Gaza is a withdrawal of despair. Unlike the Oslo concessions of 1993, there is not even the pretense of getting anything in return from the Palestinians....

In 1977, when a bunch of neo-Nazis decided to march through Skokie, a suburb of Chicago heavily populated with Holocaust survivors, there was controversy as to whether they should be...