Charles Krauthammer

While Washington wasn't looking--distracted by tax cuts, campaign-finance reform and the exquisite spectacle of Jim Jeffords wrestling his conscience to a draw--the Bush administration gave the nation a new foreign...

Left to right is the usual ideological trajectory in most people's lives. (In Winston Churchill's version of the old adage: "If you're not a liberal when you're 20, you have...

On May 6, the Israeli Navy intercepted a Lebanese ship headed for Gaza. It carried a full cargo of weapons, including Katyusha rockets and Strella anti-aircraft missiles. These are not...

The Democratic Party opposes change in the status quo--from school choice to private Social Security accounts--lest it disturb either a core liberal constituency (such as teachers) or a past liberal...

On Tuesday, President Bush proposed a revolution in American nuclear strategy. He did not just promise a missile defense for the United States. He proposed something far larger. He proposed,...

U.S. surgeon general may not be the most important job in government, but it can be. The office carries moral authority unlike any other. It is responsible for perhaps the...

Not many secretaries of state are immortalized with an eponymous doctrine even before they become secretary of state. But when Colin Powell was Gen. Powell he enunciated the rule that...

China lost. Having vastly overplayed its hand on the Hainan Island incident, China was forced to accept a virtually worthless letter from the United States. Having demanded at the very...

David Horowitz, former bomb-thrower of the left and now bomb-thrower of the right, has created a tidy scandal over the question of reparations for African-Americans. His full-page ad in several...

There are two ways to look at war. One school sees it as a temporary emergency, the result of bad people taking control of important countries and wreaking havoc. The...