Charles Krauthammer

"There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be...

For more than a year, the Democratic mantra on Afghanistan was that President Bush was not doing enough--not spending enough money, not building the army fast enough, not deploying troops...

Abba Eban once famously said that the "Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." The fall of moderate Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas--systematically destroyed by Yasser Arafat--represents a...

In relaunching his presidential campaign last week, John Kerry did not just recalibrate his campaign. He recalibrated his position on the war in Iraq. In his announcement speech, he claimed...

On Wednesday, Alabama Atty. Gen. Bill Pryor oversaw the removal of the 10 Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building. Pryor believes that the court ruling...

The president has nominated Islamic scholar Daniel Pipes to the board of directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace. This has resulted in a nasty eruption of McCarthyism. Pipes' nomination...

The State Department is proposing that the United States play hardball with Israel--reducing badly needed loan guarantees--if it proceeds with the barrier it is erecting between Israeli and Palestinian populations....

The Niger uranium flap has achieved the status of midsummer frenzy, a molehill become a mountain in the absence of competing news stories. It was but one bit of intelligence...

The U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding affirmative action is incoherent, disingenuous, intellectually muddled and morally confused. Yet it is welcome. Let me explain. Affirmative action began as an attempt to...

Everyone agrees that the United States is far too dependent on imported oil. Liberals say we need to conserve more. Conservatives say we need to produce more. It is the...