Charles Krauthammer

While President Clinton is blithely proposing a huge expansion of the teetering Medicare program, there is a looming health-care crisis that has yet to show up on radar. It is...

As our amazingly good times roll, the rush is on to take credit for them while they last. Democratic partisans are calling this the Clinton boom. This is a common...

New Year's Resolution 1998: Forget "the allies." Don't even use the term, there being none more flaccid in the American diplomatic lexicon. As in: We're consulting with "the allies." Or:...

What does it mean when the major item in the president's end-of-year news conference is a puppy-naming? It means we should be wistful at the passing of 1997. We may...

With every passing day, it becomes clear that the United States will be staying in Bosnia longer than President Clinton promised. The Dayton accords in whose name we are there...

The world is meeting in Kyoto, Japan, to decide how much wreckage to visit upon the Western economies to prevent global warming. Kyoto aims to seriously reduce greenhouse gas emissions,...

The problem with appeasement is that it does not work. If it did, it might be tolerable. Sure, you give up your self-respect: You are the secretary of state of...

What does a second-term president who no longer needs to pander and whose approval rating is soaring do when the Republican opposition, riding a wave of anti-IRS sentiment, proposes a...

The conventional view of the failure of campaign finance reform in the 105th Congress is that politicians are too corrupt and cynical to reform the system. Now politicians may be...

Janet Reno has phone problems. In May 1996, when the FBI turned up evidence of Chinese government attempts to influence U.S. elections, Reno thought the allegations serious enough to warn...