Charles Krauthammer

Conservatives are in quite a funk. It seems hardly a week goes by without my favorite conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard, featuring a headline announcing some catastrophe. One cover story,...

For a long time--from the counterculture of the 1960s until, well, yesterday--it was pretty easy to tell conservatives from liberals. Conservatives were the folks who told you how to live...

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has just returned from the Middle East. Declaring her first foray into Arab-Israeli peacemaking a qualified failure, her tone was one of impatience and frustration....

The death of a celebrity, particularly a death as terrible and tragic as Diana's, creates a puzzle: Millions of ordinary people--people who never in real life come within miles of...

We are about to enter upon the most important foreign policy debate this country has had since the Gulf War. One might say--given the near pathological indifference Americans have developed...

In the '90s, affirmative action recast itself as "diversity," the colorless, apparently unassailable euphemism for racial, gender and ethnic preferences. Ironically, however, diversity may be turning into the enemy of...

It seems finally to have dawned on the Clinton administration that the step-by-step Middle East peace process has utterly broken down. In a speech Wednesday to the National Press Club,...

To: The Lords of Baseball Re: Your latest lunacy Gentlemen--I use the term loosely--you are in serious trouble. My brother has been a baseball fan since Sandy Amoros robbed Yogi...

We are living in the golden age of astronomy, and how frustrating it is. We see pretty Pathfinder pictures of Mars, and even more glorious Hubble pictures of distant galaxies....

At midnight June 30, Bermuda became the crown jewel of the British Empire. Britannia once commanded tea from Ceylon, tobacco from Virginia and rubber from Malaya. It now sports shorts....