Charles Krauthammer

So much for the great Republican split over Iraq. Just weeks ago, we were told that it included the old-guard heavyweights: Brent Scowcroft, Henry Kissinger, Dick Armey and, heaviest of...

Whenever I hear Sept. 11 referred to as just a tragedy, I wince. The San Francisco earthquake was a tragedy. The Johnstown Flood was a tragedy. Hurricane Andrew was a...

Yasser Hamdi, once a hapless Taliban soldier, has made the trajectory from capture in Afghanistan to captivity in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to legal celebrity in the Norfolk Navy brig where...

Three years ago, the CEO of Amazon was Time's Person of the Year. Bill Gates was God. Venture capitalists and dot-com entrepreneurs were American heroes. That was when the market...

Traveling well beyond Geek Chic, the vague admiration for the pocket-protector brainies of the '90s, we are now in the midst of Disturbed Nerd Chic, the celebration of the seriously...

We've had unintended wars. We've had phony wars. We've had a Soccer War (Honduras-El Salvador, 1969). But not since the War of Jenkins' Ear--sparked by Spanish mistreatment of British seamen,...

In the film "Sleeper," Woody Allen wakes up a couple of hundred years in the future to discover, among other things, that scientists have found that tobacco is actually good...

"Bonds: Game can survive a strike." --Washington Post headline, June 22 The All-Star Game approaches, the players union is about to set a date for a strike. Barry Bonds is...

The president's speech on the Middle East this week unveiled a radically new idea that goes far beyond the "Arafat has to go" headlines. Of course Arafat has to go....

Whenever a massacre occurs in Israel, Palestinian spokesmen rush out to say: "Yes, this is terrible, but this is what happens when you have a people with no hope for...