Charles Krauthammer

The grossest misperception about the great budget deadlock is the widespread notion, fed by the media, that this is just business as usual. In fact, it is the opposite of...

I've known Mike Kinsley 17 years. We met through a magazine ad. I was 28 and working in psychiatric research. He was 27 and editor of The New Republic. The...

It does not matter that we should not have gone into Bosnia in the first place. It now matters only that we succeed. It does not matter that we had...

The last time Congress stopped a U.S. military operation by cutting off its funding was June 30, 1973. The wars in Vietnam and Laos were over, but not in Cambodia....

The much heralded, much hyped federal government shutdown came to an end on Nov. 19. On Nov. 17, President Clinton's approval rating, which had been doing well during the whole...

Like most Americans, I am disappointed that Colin Powell did not run for president. I am disappointed that a man of such character and accomplishment will not be in the...

Let's put this case in perspective. A black man, the evidence of whose guilt in a brutal interracial double murder remains overwhelming, walks free. For generations, however, black men, the...

Conventional wisdom about Bosnia lasts about a week. The latest is this: If only we had bombed the Serbs three years ago the way we are bombing them now, the...

Last week The Washington Post reported on two Asian-American children who were denied transfer from one local public school to another because of their race. The school board denied them...

The best thing about the long anticipated affirmative action decision just handed down by the Supreme Court is its relative insignificance. Adarand Constructors vs. Pena will go down in the...