Charles Krauthammer

Where is Maggie Thatcher when we need her? Shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait, she met with President Bush and told him, "This is no time to go wobbly." There is...

Lessons of an election in which a president (facing impeachment!) scores the first off-year gains since 1934. Lesson 1. The dead can rise, with Republican help. The real story of...

The detention in London of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on a human rights arrest warrant from Spain is being treated in all correct-thinking precincts--with the exception of the democratically...

Not all chess players are crazy. I'm willing to venture that. But not much more. Eccentricity does reign in our precincts. In my 20s, I used to hang out at...

Meanwhile. . . - Iraq is rebuilding its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. It needs just enriched uranium cores to complete three or four otherwise operational nuclear bombs. And Scott...

First Reagan, then Thatcher, now Kohl. The heroic age--the age of the outsized, unswerving leaders who brought victory to the last great global conflict of the 20th Century--is over. Now...

"Three words he fears most in the English language: Tell the truth." --Dan Quayle on Bill Clinton, vice presidential debate, Oct. 13, 1992 The most likely outcome of this sordid...

There is an unbridgeable conflict, we hear, between President Clinton's legal defense (I broke no laws and committed no perjury) and his political defense (I've sinned, forgive me, and let's...

Knowing Bill Clinton, one is tempted to say that if Osama bin Laden thought last week was bad, wait till the Starr report comes out. Might be a good time...

It's the seven months, stupid. Not the sex. Not the perjury to cover the sex. Not even the witness tampering to cover the perjury to cover the sex. The firestorm...