Kathleen Parker

Holiday gift-giving has produced at least one unexpected and gratifying surprise--resolution of the ultimate mystery: How could she? As in, how could Hillary Rodham Clinton put up with the First...

It was such a small thing, inconspicuous really, most people probably didn't even notice it. No one reported it; no media dissected it; no pundits applauded or probed it for...

Let us now praise famous men--those oft-berated dead white men of European descent who had the foresight and intellectual constitution to create a Supreme Court as part of a system...

That sigh heard round the world recently was the collectively expressed relief of members of the world's most-maligned profession: lawyers. Thanks to the admirable performances of attorneys in Judge N....

Forget the emperor. The devil is buck naked and no innocents remain to call his bluff. So it is in the wake of Al Gore's latest incarnation as The Statesman-Reconciler...

On the bright side of this electoral lunacy, Americans are engaged as they haven't been since O.J.'s trial. We may have a culturally split country, but in our neighborhoods, we...

She's baaaack. Indeed, Paula Corbin Jones--American Woman's most embarrassing little sister--won't go away. Like a hubristic poltergeist, her bruised spirit keeps surfacing, albeit seasonably, to haunt and taunt our recovering...

Fully aware of Mayor Rudy Giuliani's new, improved city--safer, de-porned and crime-reduced--I was surprised when, slogging through rain and dodging umbrella spokes on Madison Avenue, I nearly stumbled on a...

Politicians, pollsters and pundits know that spin is more important than truth. Impression matters more than fact. I was reminded of spin's critical role in public thought last week upon...

Talk to Americans about a $1 trillion budget surplus and their eyes glaze over. Trillions make no sense to the 99.9 percent of voters who aren't even sure how many...