Same-sex marriage: Empathy or right?

There are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy...

Charles Krauthammer May 17, 2012

Echoes of '67: Israel unites

In the middle of the night of May 7-8, 2012, Prime Minister Netanyahu shocked his country by bringing the...

Charles Krauthammer May 10, 2012

Divider in chief

Poor Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. Once again he's been pilloried for fumbling a historic Supreme Court...

Charles Krauthammer May 3, 2012

While Syria burns

In spite of his own urgings that the U.S. not sit idly by and intervene in the Syrian civil conflict,...

Charles Krauthammer April 26, 2012

Farewell, the New Frontier

As the space shuttle Discovery flew three times around Washington, thousands on the ground gazed upward with...

Charles Krauthammer April 19, 2012

Free-lunch egalitarianism

If government gives health insurance to 33 million uninsured, that costs. Costs a lot. There's no free lunch.

Charles Krauthammer April 12, 2012

Obama v. SCOTUS

"Unprecedented"? Judicial review has been the centerpiece of the American constitutional system since Marbury...

Charles Krauthammer April 5, 2012

The 'flexibility' doctrine

Obama's problem is not that missile defense is too complicated but that if people knew Obama's intentions of...

Charles Krauthammer March 30, 2012

ObamaCare: The reckoning

Since the 2010 midterm elections, ObamaCare has slipped quietly underground. Now, it's back.

Charles Krauthammer March 22, 2012

Seaweed in your gas tank

Yes, of course, presidents have no direct control over gas prices. But the American people know something...

Charles Krauthammer March 15, 2012

Obama vs. Israel: Priority No. 1? Stop Israel

It's Lucy and the football, Iran-style...

Charles Krauthammer March 8, 2012

Romney's luck

It's been a wild ride, but the storyline of the Republican race remains remarkably simple and constant...

Charles Krauthammer March 1, 2012

Overreach: ObamaCare vs. the Constitution

President Obama's birth control "accommodation" was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless.

Charles Krauthammer February 16, 2012

The Gospel according to Obama

At the National Prayer Breakfast, seeking theological underpinning for his drive to raise taxes on the rich,...

Charles Krauthammer February 9, 2012