Charles Krauthammer

Pharmaceutical companies live on patent protection. They make their profits in the few years they enjoy a monopoly on the drugs they have discovered. They fight fiercely to protect their...

Ransacking the legacy of former presidents is about as venerable a political technique as there is. If you can go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson, as Democrats did...

Americans like trials. It's the civil, fair, just way to settle disputes. But we like them too much. A general critique of Americans is that we bring everything to court....

Six weeks into the anti-Clinton firestorm, it is time to step back and ask: Why exactly has everyone--former friends and supporters included--turned so furiously against him? OK. So the Clintons...

Imagine that on the day after the 1980 election, Ronald Reagan, having crushed President Jimmy Carter, offered to make him secretary of defense, to make defeated Vice President Walter Mondale...

In spring of 1996, gasoline prices shot up, topping $2 per gallon in California. It being an election year, President Clinton boldly stepped in and ordered an investigation by the...

Landslides are rare in Israel. The political landscape, while hopelessly fractured, is as stable as the local geology. Israel has so long been frozen in an insoluble existential dilemma--how to...

Advocates of campaign-finance reform have seized on the Marc Rich pardon--and the $1 million Rich's ex-wife gave to the Democratic Party--as a powerful new argument for reform. Now, reform may...

With the hindsight of, oh, a week, one can already, and with certainty, contrast our current and just-departed presidencies. The Bush inaugural was remarkable for its modesty. It was spare,...

A senator is nominated for high office. He's been re-elected many times statewide. He has served admirably as his state's attorney general. He is devout, speaking openly and proudly about...