Charles Krauthammer – Page 7

The Obama administration mandated that electronic health records should be universally in use by 2015.

As I said, let the doctors breathe

May 11, 2019 at 2:23 a.m.

I rarely do follow-up columns. I'm averaging one every 10 years. And while my last such exercise resulted in a written apology from the White House (for accusing me of...

The electronic health records mandate put in place as part of Obamacare is driving doctors to become "providers" rather than physicians.

How Obamacare demoralized doctors and degraded care

May 11, 2019 at 2:22 a.m.

About a decade ago, a doctor friend was lamenting the increasingly frustrating conditions of clinical practice. "How did you know to get out of medicine in 1978?" he asked with...

President Barack Obama, shown May 21, 2015, addressed troops in December 2011, saying, "We are leaving behind a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people." Since then, America's standing in the Middle East has collapsed.

Why Obama deserves the bulk of the blame for Iraq

May 11, 2019 at 2:22 a.m.

Ramadi falls. The Iraqi army flees. The great 60-nation anti-Islamic State group coalition so grandly proclaimed by the Obama administration is nowhere to be seen. Instead, it's the defense minister...

Union members and community activists protest March 20, 2015, at Miami Dade College in Florida, where Treasury Jacob Lew was participating in a forum on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. President Barack Obama has faced opposition within his party in Congress to granting him fast-track authority on the trade deal being hammered out with 11 other countries, including key allies Japan, Australia and Singapore.

Save Obama from himself (on trade)

August 21, 2019 at 5:39 p.m.

That free trade is advantageous to both sides is the rarest of political propositions — provable, indeed mathematically. David Ricardo did so in 1817. The Law of Comparative Advantage has...

Columnist Charles Krauthammer says he believes our days of eating meat will eventually come to an end.

A moderate carnivore wrestles with our treatment of animals

May 11, 2019 at 2:21 a.m.

We often wonder how people of the past, including the most revered and refined, could have universally engaged in conduct now considered unconscionable. Such as slavery. How could the Founders,...

The maddening appeal of distorting history

May 11, 2019 at 2:20 a.m.

"Wolf Hall," the Man Booker Prize-winning historical novel about the court of Henry VIII — and most dramatically, the conflict between Thomas Cromwell and Sir Thomas More — is now...

President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington about the breakthrough in the Iranian nuclear talks.

Obama’s fatal twist on the Nixon doctrine: Empower Iran

May 11, 2019 at 2:19 a.m.

In December, President Barack Obama said that he wished to see Iran ultimately become a "very successful regional power." His wish — a nightmare for the Western-oriented Arab states —...

Queen Hillary cruises by van to connect with the little guys

May 11, 2019 at 2:19 a.m.

See Hillary ride in a van! Watch her meet everyday Americans! Witness her ordering a burrito bowl at Chipotle! Which she did wearing shades, as did her chief aide Huma...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a nuclear technology day ceremony on April 9, 2015, in Tehran. Rouhani warned that Iran will not sign on to a final nuclear deal with world powers unless it is accompanied by immediate lifting of economic sanctions.

Obama’s ‘framework’ is a clear pathway for Iran to go nuclear

May 11, 2019 at 2:18 a.m.

"Negotiations ... to prevent an Iranian capability to develop a nuclear arsenal are ending with an agreement that concedes this very capability ...." — Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, The...

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee launched his second bid for the White House on May 5, 2015. Huckabee suspended his campaign on Feb. 1, 2016, after the Iowa caucuses. Huckabee, a favorite among social conservatives, finished second in the 2008 Republican primaries to John McCain.

Sizing up the crowded field of GOP presidential hopefuls

May 11, 2019 at 2:16 a.m.

With Ted Cruz announcing and Rand Paul and Marco Rubio soon to follow, it's time to start handicapping the horses and making enemies. No point in wasting time on the...

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