Charles Krauthammer

Upon losing a game at the 1925 Baden-Baden tournament, Aron Nimzowitsch, the great chess theoretician and a superb player, knocked the pieces off the board, jumped on the table and...

For 60 years, American troops in the tens of thousands have been sitting in Germany essentially where U.S. Army Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower left them at the end of World...

You wanted campaign finance reform. You got campaign finance reform. The McCain-Feingold law promised to take the money out of politics. If you believed that, you deserve what you got....

No bounce for John Kerry. The Democrats and their pollsters will tell you this is because the electorate has already made up its mind. But if that is the case,...

Did we invade the wrong country? One of the lessons now being drawn from the Sept. 11, 2001, report is that Iran was the real threat. It had links to...

Thank God for Hans Blix. Whenever we become lax and forgetful about how the world changed on Sept. 11, 2001, former chief UN weapons inspector Blix is there to make...

I am sure there is a special place in heaven reserved for those who never have used the F-word. I will never get near that place. Nor, apparently, will Vice...

Since 1960 we have had only two politically successful presidents--reaffirmed and re-elected, dominating their decades: Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. (Except for John F. Kennedy, whose presidency was cut short,...

While no one was looking, something historic has happened in the Middle East. The Palestinian intifada is over, and the Palestinians have lost. For Israel, the victory is bitter. The...

The second-greatest president of the 20th Century dies (with Theodore Roosevelt coming a close third), and the liberal establishment that alternately ridiculed and demonized Ronald Reagan throughout his presidency is...