Charles Krauthammer

In 1864, 11 of the 36 United States did not participate in the presidential election. Was Lincoln's election therefore illegitimate? In 1868, three years after the security situation had, shall...

Later than most two-term presidents, George Bush got his mandate. To be sure, he did get one on Sept. 11, 2001, from Osama bin Laden, but until Tuesday, not from...

In the 1990s, Afghanistan was allowed to fall to the Taliban and become the global center for the training, indoctrination and seeding of jihadists around the world--including the mass murderers...

The centerpiece of Sen. John Kerry's foreign policy is to rebuild our alliances so the world will come to our help, especially in Iraq. He repeats this endlessly because it...

After the second presidential debate, in which Sen. John Kerry used the word "plan" 24 times, I said on television that Kerry has a plan for everything except curing psoriasis....

Do the bad guys--the terrorists in their Afghan caves and Iraqi redoubts--want President Bush defeated in this election? Bush critics, among them the editors of The New York Times, have...

It was a mistake for John Kerry to spend four days at the Democratic National Convention establishing his connection to Vietnam. But it was oddly appropriate. More than any other...

Of all our allies in the world, which is the only one to have joined the United States in the foxhole in every war in the last 100 years? Not...

If the election were held today, John Kerry would lose by between 58 and 100 electoral votes. The reason is simple: The central vulnerability of President Bush--the central issue of...

The Republicans got a bounce out of their convention. The Democrats did not. Why? The Republicans had something to say. The Democrats did not. Something always beats nothing. The Democrats...