Charles Krauthammer

It is a good idea to expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. It is a bad idea to do that without prohibiting research that uses embryos created specifically to...

Six percent of British Muslims--more than 100,000 citizens--thought the July 7 London terror attacks were justified. A quarter of British Muslims merely sympathize with the bombers. Even more shocking, nearly...

Having learned the lessons of the Bork fiasco, when Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) libeled Robert Bork on the floor of the Senate within minutes of Bork's nomination--a speech that became...

Last Nov. 2, Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker and descendant of the painter, was cycling through Amsterdam. He was accosted by Mohammed Bouyeri, who shot him six times as Van...

Perhaps the most telling moment of Sandra Day O'Connor's nearly quarter-century career on the U.S. Supreme Court came on her last day. In her opinion on the Kentucky 10 Commandments...

If George Bush did not flirt with withdrawal during last year's presidential campaign when it looked as if Iraq might cost him his political career, he certainly will not do...

What has happened to the Democrats over the last few decades is best captured by the phrase "reactionary liberalism." Spent of new ideas, their only remaining idea is to hang...

One of the reasons for the success we've enjoyed in Afghanistan is that our viceroy--pardon me, ambassador--there, who saw the country through the founding of a democratic government, was not...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: "Dope is cool." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: "Let the cancer patients suffer." If the headline writers characterized Supreme Court decisions the way...

The self-flagellation over abuse reports at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp has turned into a full-scale panic. There are calls for the United States, with all this worldwide publicity, to...