Charles Krauthammer

Budget debates in Washington are always semi-fictional. But the great debate about "raiding Social Security" is twilight-zone surreal. Democrats accuse the administration of taking bread from the mouths of seniors;...

This cannot go on. Massacre at a Tel Aviv disco: 21 teens dead, dozens maimed and wounded. Mass murder at a Jerusalem pizzeria: 15 dead, more than 100 maimed and...

Reflections on President Bush 43 generally are made with conscious comparison to President Bush 41. But George W. is far closer to Ronald Reagan than to his father, and not...

Hadn't we all agreed--we supporters of stem cell research--that it was morally OK to destroy a tiny human embryo for its possibly curative stem cells because these embryos from fertility...

Tuesday, we lost the greatest American publisher of our time. Katharine Graham took an undistinguished newspaper and made it great. She took a small newspaper company and made it a...

In a 1996 referendum, California voters outlawed racial preferences. Or did they? At the University of California, a lovely back door has been found for beating the ban. The maneuver...

Question: "Mr. Vice President, can you continue in your current job . . .?" Question: "Have you talked at all with the president about the possibility of resignation and how...

As the Bush administration approaches a decision on stem cell research, the caricatures have already been drawn. On one side are the human benefactors who wish only a chance to...

"Remember George, this is no time to go wobbly." So said Margaret Thatcher to the first President Bush just days after Saddam Hussein attacked Kuwait. Bush did not go wobbly....

"Pearl Harbor," the movie, is an engagingly ramshackle mess of comical improbabilities, '40s cliches and dialogue so corny it must have been (was it?) deliberate. It is entertaining enough, but...