Charles Krauthammer

Last week, Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan managed to (1) kill the balanced-budget amendment, (2) deal Republicans their first big defeat since November, and (3) make Democrats the...

Now that the great affirmative action debate has begun, what is the president's position? Classically Clintonesque: tactical retreat. He remains for affirmative action, but pledges to review all federal affirmative...

One last mission for the World War II generation. With that theme Bob Dole launched his bid for the presidency last week in New Hampshire. The gambit, which at once...

"Recently, I have begun to use hysterectomy in patients with severe mental retardation," reported surgeon general-designate Henry Foster in 1974. There was nothing wrong with the uteruses of these women....

On the face of it, Rep. Henry Waxman's (D-Calif.) defense of President Clinton's nominee for surgeon general seems quite compelling: Yes, Dr. Henry W. Foster Jr. performed abortions. But abortion...

In his State of the Union address President Clinton declared "the epidemic of teen pregnancies and births where there is no marriage" to be "our most serious social problem"-a nice,...

The suicide bombers who killed 19 young Israelis last Sunday are, of course, fanatics. But there is another kind of fanaticism, the kind, Santayana said, that "consists in redoubling your...

A funny thing happened on the way to welfare reform. The moderate Senate is turning more radical than the radical House. The history of this little-noted development goes like this:...

What are the Democrats to do? With the media stricken with Newtomania, with everyone reading from the Republican Contract, the Democrats could be forgiven for lapsing into a strategy of...

Having lost his domestic agenda to Newt Gingrich and having given his foreign portfolio to Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton has become the least consequential president since the 1920s. In part,...