Charles Krauthammer
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The right-to-work dilemmaDec 17, 2012 4:00 am - For all the fury and fistfights outside the Lansing Capitol, what happened in Michigan last week was a simple accommodation to reality. The most famously unionized state...
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It’s nothing but a power playDec 10, 2012 4:00 am - Let’s understand President Obama’s strategy in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. It has nothing to do with economics or real fiscal reform. This is entirely about politic...
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Cliff jumping with ObamaDec 03, 2012 2:44 pm - Why are Republicans playing the Democrats’ game that the “fiscal cliff” is all about taxation? House Speaker John Boehner already made the pre-emptive concession of agre...
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Why was there war in Gaza?Nov 25, 2012 4:00 am - Why was there an Israel-Gaza war in the first place? Resistance to the occupation, say Hamas and many in the international media. What occupation? Seven years ago, in f...
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The way forwardNov 11, 2012 4:00 am - They lose and immediately the chorus begins. Republicans must change or die. A rump party of white America, it must adapt to evolving demographics or forever be the mino...
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The great, ideological choiceNov 04, 2012 5:00 am - “Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.” That was Barack Obama in 2008. And he was r...
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Obama stoops, doesn’t conquerOct 28, 2012 5:00 am - “L’etat, c’est moi.” — Louis XIV “This nation. Me.” — Barack Obama, third presidential debate OK, OK. I’ll give you the context. Obama was talking about “when Tunisian...
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The great gaffeOct 21, 2012 5:00 am - Fight night at Hofstra. The two boxers, confined within a ring of spectators — circling, feinting, taunting, staring each other down — come several times, by my reckonin...
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The Big Bird counterattackOct 15, 2012 5:00 am - No mystery about the trajectory of this race. It was static for months as President Obama held a marginal lead. Then came the conventions. The Republicans squandered Tam...
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Go large, MittSep 30, 2012 5:00 am - In mid-September 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the financial system. Barack Obama handled it coolly. John McCain did not. Obama won the pres...