Charles Krauthammer

I find myself filled with gratitude for having been born American. And not French. (For me, a close call: My parents were French citizens at the time of my birth...

My friend and colleague, E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post, has noted how little coverage the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has received here. He is...

In Washington, the annals of hypocrisy are rich. But it doesn't get much richer than this: Democrats excoriating Republicans for disrespecting states' rights. This is the story. In 1994, Oregon...

After seven years, the big foreign-policy thinkers in the Clinton administration are convinced they have come up with a big idea. Having spent the better part of a decade meandering...

The twilight of the Clinton presidency is here, and it is not a pretty sight. Not that Clinton's underside had ever been entirely hidden. We got our first national glimpse...

As Bob Woodward likes to say, he is the gift that keeps on giving. Richard Nixon, that is. And an endless source of amusement he is. We have all been...

There are a lot of ways to say "becoming decadent" or "losing our moral moorings" or "in steep social decline." "Slouching toward Gomorrah" is not the one that comes most...

The line on Pat Buchanan has always been this: He might be slightly cracked--for example, writing in his latest book that Hitler's invasion of France was defensive ("to secure his...

When NATO forces first marched into Kosovo, their commander, Sir Michael Jackson, quite literally begged the local Serbs not to flee. When NATO leaders met at the Washington summit, they...

Some debates just never go away. The Clinton administration is back again pressing Congress for passage of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. This is part of a final legacy push...