Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer: Repealing Obamacare is easier said than done
WASHINGTON – The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, but for governments it's not that easy. Once something is given – say, health...
Charles Krauthammer: Trump’s travel ban was absolutely legal – and absolutely stupid
WASHINGTON – Stupid but legal. Such is the Trump administration's travel ban for people from seven Muslim countries. Of course, as with almost everything...
Charles Krauthammer: Retreating from the world will not make us great
WASHINGTON – The flurry of bold executive orders and of highly provocative Cabinet nominations (such as a secretary of education who actually believes in...
Charles Krauthammer: As Obama exits stage left, he shows true colors
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama did not go out quietly. His unquiet final acts were, in part, overshadowed by a successor who refused to come...
Charles Krauthammer: Trump lights a match to federal overreach
WASHINGTON – Democrats spent the first two decades of the post-Cold War era rather relaxed about Russian provocations and revanchism. President Obama famously mocked...
Krauthammer: NATO troop boost a move in the right direction
WASHINGTON – "The most significant reinforcement of our collective defense any time since the Cold War," President Obama called it. A bit of an...
Krauthammer: The promise of Hillaryism is more of the same
"I believe in an America always moving toward the future." (Hillary Clinton, June 21)WASHINGTON – This was not the most important line in Clinton's...
Charles Krauthammer: Is Trump a conservative? Does anybody care?
WASHINGTON – What lies behind Donald Trump's nomination victory? Received wisdom among conservatives is that he, the outsider, sensed, marshaled and came to represent...
Krauthammer: With Bernie nipping at her heels, Hillary dumps Bill’s legacy
WASHINGTON – How far they've come. And I'm not talking about the GOP, whose front-runner representing 37 percent of the Republican electorate has repudiated...
Krauthammer: While the world burns, Obama fiddles with his legacy
WASHINGTON – The split-screen told the story: on one side, images of the terror bombing in Brussels; on the other, Barack Obama doing the...