Charles Krauthammer

Replaying one of Krauthammer’s rare ‘self-reflection’ columns

May 31, 2019 at 9:25 p.m.

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer died of cancer Thursday at age 68. Here is one of his rare “self-reflection” columns that the Chicago Tribune published Dec. 21, 2009. WASHINGTON —...

In this March 31, 2015 photo, Charles Krauthammer talks about getting into politics during a news conference in Corpus Christi, Texas. The Fox News contributor and syndicated columnist says he has ?"only a few weeks to live"? because of an aggressive form of cancer.

With weeks to live, Charles Krauthammer pens a note to his readers

May 31, 2019 at 9:18 p.m.

I have been uncharacteristically silent these past 10 months. I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I’m afraid I must tell you now that...

The Capitol in Washington is seen early Thursday, April 6, 2017, as Senate Republicans are poised to change the rules by lowering the threshold for a vote on Supreme Court nominees from 60 votes to a simple majority to eliminate the ability of Democrats to keep President Donald Trump's nominee Neil Gorsuch off the high court.

Karma, precedent and the nuclear option

May 11, 2019 at 8:59 a.m.

— For euphemism, dissimulation and outright hypocrisy, there is nothing quite as entertaining as the periodic Senate dust-ups over Supreme Court appointments and the filibuster. The arguments for and against...

The road to single-payer health care

May 11, 2019 at 8:59 a.m.

Repeal-and-replace (for Obamacare) is not quite dead. It has been declared so, but what that means is that, for now, the president has (apparently) washed his hands of it and...

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2017.

Don’t go down the conspiracy rabbit hole

May 11, 2019 at 8:57 a.m.

When he was Ronald Reagan's secretary of state, George Shultz was once asked about the CIA's disavowal of involvement in a mysterious recent bombing in Lebanon. Replied Shultz: "If the...

Chicago police watch as demonstrators converge Jan. 29, 2017, outside Terminal 5 of O'Hare International Airport in reaction to the executive order travel ban,

Trump’s travel moratorium: What a hopeless disaster

May 11, 2019 at 8:53 a.m.

Stupid but legal. Such is the Trump administration's travel ban for people from seven Muslim-majority countries. Of course, as with almost everything in American life, what should be a policy...

Obama’s most shameful back-stabbing moment

May 11, 2019 at 8:48 a.m.

"When the chips are down, I have Israel's back." — President Barack Obama, AIPAC conference, March 4, 2012 The audience — overwhelmingly Jewish, passionately pro-Israel and supremely gullible — applauded...

Syrians who left the last rebel-held pockets of Aleppo arrive Dec. 22, 2016 in the opposition-controlled Khan al-Assal region, west of the embattled city.

Aleppo highlights Obama’s disastrous Middle East policy

May 11, 2019 at 8:48 a.m.

The fall of Aleppo just weeks before President Barack Obama leaves office is a fitting stamp on his Middle East policy of retreat and withdrawal. The pitiable pictures from the...

The Trump Cabinet: Bonfire of the agencies

August 25, 2019 at 4:37 a.m.

Democrats spent the first two decades of the post-Cold War era rather relaxed about Russian provocations and revanchism. President Barack Obama famously mocked Mitt Romney in 2012 for suggesting that...

It’s the ‘lock her up’ threat that should have Americans terrified

May 11, 2019 at 8:39 a.m.

The second presidential debate — bloody, muddy and raucous — was just enough to save Donald Trump's campaign from extinction, but not enough to restore his chances of winning, barring...

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