Charles Krauthammer

Having been chastened when the euphoria at the collapse of the Berlin Wall turned into the foreboding that now hangs over the ex-Soviet empire, much of the commentary on South...

Richard Nixon was one president of whom it could never be said "Richard, we hardly knew ye." He was the most thoroughly psychoanalyzed president-perhaps public person-of our time. Yet he...

Michael Fay, an 18-year-old American living in Singapore, has been sentenced to flogging for spray painting and vandalizing cars over a 10-day period. The flogging is serious, six lashes with...

The United States went to war with Iraq in part because, once in control of the Persian Gulf and its oil, Iraq would soon become a nuclear power. The United...

Sometimes even appeasement doesn't work. When North Korea ostentatiously reneged on its promise to allow a one-time inspection of some of its nuclear facilities, even the Clinton administration had to...

Who is the chief beneficiary of the Whitewater explosion? My vote goes to Secretary of State Warren Christopher. Only in a Washington entirely absorbed with scandal could the astonishing debacle...

The White House counsel has resigned under pressure. Ten Clinton aides have been subpoenaed by the Whitewater special prosecutor looking into improper contacts between the White House and independent S&L...

The Jewish reaction to the massacre by a lone Israeli gunman in Hebron was instant and overwhelming. "There is no understanding, no forgiveness, and no atonement for this horrible act,"...

We really did not need a major spy scandal to tell us that the honeymoon with Russia was over. But the arrest of the CIA's Aldrich Ames makes the point...

The good news about the American decision to, in effect, conditionally enter the Yugoslav civil war on the side of the Bosnian Muslims is that it could have been worse....