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Charles Krauthammer: The authoritarian temptation
An excerpt from the original essay in his posthumous book “The Point of It All.”
Charles Krauthammer: The enduring miracle of the American Constitution
An excerpt from the forthcoming posthumous book “The Point of It All.”
A note to readers
A message from Charles Krauthammer
The guardrails hold
From the generals to the Boy Scouts, institutions are withstanding Trump.
The guardrails hold
From the generals to the Boy Scouts, institutions are withstanding Trump.
Sessions lessons
Trump’s attacks on his attorney general show his pathological need to display dominance.
Sessions lessons
Trump’s attacks on his attorney general show his pathological need to display dominance.
What to do for little Charlie Gard
One cannot imagine a more wrenching moral dilemma.
What to do for little Charlie Gard
One cannot imagine a more wrenching moral dilemma.
Bungled collusion is still collusion
What Trump Jr., et al. did may not be criminal. But it is deeply wrong.
Bungled collusion is still collusion
What Trump Jr., et al. did may not be criminal. But it is deeply wrong.
North Korea: The Rubicon is crossed
Kim Jong Un has an intercontinental weapon. What do we have?
North Korea: The Rubicon is crossed
Kim Jong Un has an intercontinental weapon. What do we have?
Why do they even play the game?
The Krauthammer Conjecture: Winning isn’t everything — but losing is a lot worse.
Why do they even play the game?
The Krauthammer Conjecture: Winning isn’t everything — but losing is a lot worse.
The great Muslim civil war — and us
Everyone knows that the Islamic State is finished. Who inherits?
The great Muslim civil war — and us
Everyone knows that the Islamic State is finished. Who inherits?
You can’t govern by id
Trump’s “unfiltered” tweets blur lines between policy and pathology.
You can’t govern by id
Trump’s “unfiltered” tweets blur lines between policy and pa�thol�ogy.
To die for Estonia?
By abdicating America’s defensive commitment to NATO, Trump has dangerously undermined global security.
Why Middle East peace starts in Saudi Arabia
The epic Sunni-Shiite war is at the center of the crisis shaking the Middle East today.
Why Middle East peace starts in Saudi Arabia
The epic Sunni-Shiite war is at the center of the crisis shaking the Middle East today.
The guardrails can’t contain Trump
But removing him by way of the 25th Amendment would be the most destabilizing event in American political history.
The guardrails can’t contain Trump
But removing him by way of the 25th Amendment would be the most destabilizing event in American political history.
A political ax murder
There were plenty of reasons to fire James Comey — just not the one President Trump has given.
Trump: ‘normalized’ but still scary
What happens when the phone rings in the Oval Office at 3 a.m.?
Populism on pause
Don’t mistake the results of the French presidential election for a sign that populism is abating.
With North Korea, we do have cards to play
The nuclear threat from the regime is growing. But the United States is far from helpless.
The Great Reversal — for now
The Trump administration has done a foreign policy about-face.
Karma, precedent and the nuclear option
For Democrats it’s payback time for Harry Reid’s reckless abolition of the filibuster on judicial appointees.
The road to single-payer health care
We’re on it. But there’s still time to revisit a more ambitious repeal-and-replace plan.
American democracy: Not so decadent after all
The good news is that our checks and balances are working just fine.
The real world of Obamacare repeal
Republicans are learning that entitlements are hard to take away.
Down the conspiracy rabbit hole
Washington has worked itself into a frenzy over two different conjectures.
Revolt of the attorneys general
A process to counter executive willfulness.
Trump and the ‘madman theory’
Maybe there are benefits to the Trump administration’s two-track, two-reality foreign policy.
The coverup in search of a crime
Flynn’s calls with the Russian ambassador broke no laws. So why did he lie about them?
The travel moratorium: A hopeless disaster
It caused enormous disruption without making us any safer.
Thank God for Harry Reid
He guaranteed Neil Gorsuch’s elevation to the Supreme Court.
Trump’s foreign policy revolution
The president’s isolationist agenda breaks from 70 years of precedent.
Obama’s self-revealing final act
Two of his parting shots were particularly shocking.
What happened to the honeymoon?
Trump is wearing out his welcome, and he hasn’t even taken office.
Cold War relic, present day threat
North Korea, a highly erratic and often irrational regime, is acquiring the capacity to destroy an American city by missile.
Obama’s final, most shameful, legacy moment
The U.N. Security Council’s condemnation of Israeli settlements flies in the face of four decades of U.S. diplomacy.
Aleppo and American decline
For the first time in four decades, the United States is an irrelevance in the Middle East.
The Trump Cabinet: Bonfire of the agencies
Will his picks to lead federal agencies be the ultimate rebuttal of Obama’s executive-branch overreach?
Tweets and theater entertain, but Congress is the main event
The president-elect should focus less on Twitter and more on the lawmakers who can actually get something done.
After a mere 25 years, the triumph of the West is over
An era of autocracy looms.
For Democrats, the road back
Their doctrine of tribalism at home and universalism abroad is finished.
How the new Republican majority can succeed
The Reaganite and populist elements in the party need to be willing to advance each other’s goals.
Final days, awful choice
Comey’s announcement brought flooding back every unsavory element of Clinton’s character. But it still doesn’t make Trump fit to be president.
Is Obama preparing a parting shot at Israel?
The president could try to force a two-state solution before he leaves office.
My vote, explained
The WikiLeaks disclosures make the case against Hillary Clinton even more clear.
It’s not the ‘locker room’ talk. It’s the ‘lock her up’ talk.
In the United States, we don’t persecute political opponents. Donald Trump doesn’t seem to understand that.
The stillborn legacy of Barack Obama
The two central pillars of his presidency are collapsing before our eyes.
When facts, logic and history don’t matter
This election has been marked by outlandish distortions, hype and blatant disregard for the truth.
Clinton sharpens, Trump softens. He’s rising, she’s falling.
Instead of dwelling on his old mistakes, Trump continually creates new Trumps.
Incident in Hangzhou
Obama’s humiliation in China is a sign of global disdain for the president.
The only immigration solution
If Trump were to acquiesce on legalization, he might seal an artful deal on border enforcement.
The bribery standard
Newly released State Department-Clinton Foundation emails reinforce Hillary Clinton’s sorry pattern of playing fast and loose with ethical standards.
The price of powerlessness
Obama shows little concern about Russian success in the Middle East and Europe.
To each his own Olympics
This fan is waiting for his favorite games to begin in November.
Donald Trump and the fitness threshold
The GOP nominee badly needs to do what outsider Reagan accomplished in 1980: pass the threshold test for acceptability.
What’s the case for Hillary Clinton?
“The best darn change maker” is not a sufficiently inspiring counter to Donald Trump’s anxiety-stirring vision of a way of life in peril.
Notes from Cleveland: The two forms of resistance
One was Cruz’s refusal to endorse Trump; the other was more subtle, led by the unenthusiastic McConnell and Ryan.
Resisting the revisionists: Finally, a first step
The troop deployments to Eastern Europe announced at the NATO summit in Warsaw were an achievement.
Comey: A theory
Why did the FBI director let Hillary Clinton off the hook?
Brexit: Sovereign Kingdom or little England?
Scotland and Northern Ireland might emulate Britain’s understandable self-assertion.
Hillaryism
Trapped by circumstance, she is the status quo candidate of uninspired incrementalism.
Trump is running as Trump. Surprise!
The presumptive GOP candidate shows no signs of turning presidential.
In the matter of Paul Ryan
One can be appalled by Donald Trump but understand why the House speaker would support him.
Lovable Bernie whacks Israel
Sanders won’t win, but he will shape the Democratic party platform.
The arrow of history
President Obama leaves a dual legacy on foreign policy, one of idealism tempered by realpolitik.
Donald, Hillary and the Bernie factor
We are unlikely to go the next six months without a significant crisis. How will the candidates react?
The ideological earthquake and the aftermath
Donald Trump and the GOP don’t care about principle.
The world according to Trump
His version of America First is a jumbled and dangerous foreign policy mess.
Our own Mickey Mantle
It’s spring. It’s warm. There’s baseball. There’s Bryce Harper.
Clintonism, RIP
The center-left, triangulating, New Democrat (Bill) Clintonism of the 1990s is dead.
The coming train wreck
If Trump loses out at the convention, a party split is guaranteed.
The four foreign policies
Here is the range of bad choices: pacifist, internationalist, unilateralist and mercantilist.
Obama’s ideological holiday in Havana
The president’s muted response to the attacks is difficult to fathom.
There’s an air of menace about this campaign
It’s being fueled on both sides: one through anti-free-speech agitation; the other side by threats.
The Holocaust and Jewish identity
Bernie Sanders’s sincere, revealing answer.
Donald Trump: Defender of the Faith
It turns out evangelicals won’t turn out for Ted Cruz.
While Obama fiddles ...
Russia, China and Iran are on the march, yet the president focuses on Cuba and climate change.
Win one for Nino
The preservation of Justice Antonin Scalia’s legacy will be pinned to the outcome of the 2016 election.
Sanders and Trump: Magic sells
This season’s politics of fantasy have their roots in the Obama presidency.
The ‘establishment’ nonsense
Cruz and Rubio practice two different versions of conservatism. But Trump is not a conservative at all.
The three-cornered fight for the soul of the GOP
Could a full-scale Republican riot upend a century of conservativism?
The GOP gets the Iran prisoner swap wrong
The problems lie in the nuclear agreement and Iran’s return to prominence on the world stage.
The state of the presidency: spent
In his final State of the Union address, Obama served up old rhetoric and tired promises.
Defy America, pay no price
Iran test-fires nuclear-capable missiles, but the Obama administration barely responds.
Space: The visionaries take over
The United States is a spacefaring nation again thanks to the likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
Food fads: Make mine gluten-full
Sometimes, you just have to break the dietary rules and hope for the best.
Legacy or bust
So what if the climate deal and Iran deal aren’t actual agreements? Obama needs accomplishments.
Why take the Trump stunt seriously?
His would-be Muslim ban is an impractical, absurd distraction from real issues.
The Syrian immigration cul-de-sac
The debate has become a national disgrace.
Obama’s phony war
The president is more interested in fighting Republicans than the Islamic State.
The most revealing debate yet
Republican candidates begin leaving the entertainment phase and entering the serious season.
Take the winnings and run
The GOP presidential candidates squander their victory over CNBC by debating room temperature.