Charles Krauthammer

Take any morally dubious proposition--like assisting a suicide--and pretend it is merely help for the terminally ill, and you are well on your way to legitimacy and a large public...

One of the first orders of business for the new Congress will be the balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. As a public service, I offer a foolproof way to ensure...

On Jan. 17 Isareli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned over the city of Hebron to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and agreed in writing to turn over more of the West...

In the peace agreement with Israel, the Palestinians undertook one solemn commitment: to change their national charter that calls for the destruction of Israel. It stands to reason. If you...

Bob Dole had barely finished his concession speech when the nation's airwaves experienced an eruption of sweet-natured bipartisanship. With Dole freshly buried, from coast to coast pols and pundits called...

"I'm not some extremist out here; I care about people." --Bob Dole, presidential debate, Oct. 6, 1996 With four weeks to go and 15 points behind, Bob Dole is still...

This could have been an important election, until the Republicans lost their nerve. They once thought they had a mandate for the assault on the welfare state they had promised...

When the Senate prepared to take up final action on the Chemical Weapons Convention Thursday, advocates of the treaty thought they had the ultimate weapon: emotional blackmail. Who could vote--in...

Hours after Saddam Hussein attacked the United States-protected "safe haven" in northern Iraq, CNN's White House correspondent reported that "some Clinton aides privately note that this might bump the embarrassing...

What was the major theme of the coverage coming out of the San Diego convention? The triumph of party over press. How the slick, media-savvy scripters of the Republican convention,...