Charles Krauthammer

2042. I do not know if President Bush's Social Security reform will pass, but if it does not, its demise will be traced to that point in the president's State...

It is now conventional wisdom that the new opening to a Middle East peace is a result of Yasser Arafat's death. This is only half true, and it misses the...

"At polling centers hit by explosions, survivors refused to go home, steadfastly waiting to cast their votes as policemen swept away bits of flesh." --New York Times, Feb. 2, on...

In parliamentary systems it is not uncommon to turn a political nomination--or even a relatively insignificant bill--into a way of expressing a lack of confidence in the government or in...

Where are we? At this midpoint of the Bush administration, engaged as we are in conflict throughout the world, are we winning? The great democratic crusade undertaken by this administration...

First comes the crime: Dan Rather's late hit on President Bush's Air National Guard service, featuring what were almost immediately revealed to be forged documents. Then comes the cover-up: 12...

When it comes to music, my wife is oracular. Every so often she puts on a CD of some little-known artist and says, "This is interesting, you've got to listen,"...

"Holiday celebrations where Christmas music is being sung make people feel different, and because it is such a majority, it makes the minority feel uncomfortable." --Mark Brownstein, parent, Maplewood, N.J.,...

"Miracle begets yawn" has been the American reaction to the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as president of Afghanistan. Before our astonishing success in Afghanistan goes completely down the memory hole,...

There has been general back-patting in the West about renewed European-American comity during the Ukrainian crisis. Both the United States and Europe have been doing exactly the right thing: rejecting...