Charles Krauthammer

A lame-duck American president and a dead-duck Israeli prime minister (opposed by three-quarters of his parliament and running 28 points behind in pre-election polls) are racing to try to change...

Any newcomer stepping into the role of the leader of the world has a stature problem, especially a mere governor like Carter or Clinton or now George W. Bush. Bush...

First there was the campaign. Then there was the post-election recount campaign (Bill Daley memorably declaring in the wee hours of election night: "Our campaign continues."). Now there is the...

Democratic partisans are complaining that the presidential election has been settled not by the people but by judges. This is amusing. Who turned this into a lawyers' contest anyway? Within...

Take away the lawyers, take away the spinners, take away the demonstrators and you are left with the central conundrum of this election: the margin of victory is smaller than...

Everyone swears allegiance to the holy principle of the "will of the people." The Florida Supreme Court invokes it to override "a hypertechnical reliance upon statutory provision," or what normal...

WASHINGTON--There is a reason that machines have been chosen by Florida and so many other states to count ballots. The reason is not only speed and efficiency, but fairness. Of...

As Israel awakens from the mirage of the last seven years and to the nightmare of the murderous ethnic war it has invited into its very heart, it searches for...

Once again, the great sphinx looms over the Middle East. Yasser Arafat has everyone baffled. Yes, after Arafat started a war just weeks after being offered a generous peace, most...

What does it take to make the dreamers admit, if only to themselves, that the Oslo peace process was a mirage? The lynching of Israeli soldiers by a Palestinian mob...