Krauthammer: Karma, precedent and the nuclear option
The Gorsuch nomination is a bitter setback to the liberal project of using the courts to ratchet leftward the law and society.
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Krauthammer: The road to single-payer health care
As Obamacare continues to unravel, it won't take much for Democrats to abandon it and go for the simplicity and the universality of Medicare-for-all.
Krauthammer: American democracy is not so decadent after all
It turns out the much feared, much predicted withering of our democratic institutions has been grossly exaggerated. The system lives.
Krauthammer: The real world of Obamacare repeal
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, but for governments it's not that easy. Once something is given -- say, health insurance coverage to 20 million Americans -- you...
Krauthammer: Washington goes back down the conspiracy rabbit hole
My default view of espionage is to never believe anyone because everyone is trained in deception. This is not a value judgment; it's a job description.
Krauthammer: Where Congress has failed, state attorneys general have stepped in
Normally one would expect Congress to be the instrument of resistance to presidential trespass. But Congress has been supine, and into that vacuum stepped the states.
Krauthammer: How the Nixonian “Madman Theory” is paying off for Trump
At the heart of Donald Trump's foreign policy team lies a glaring contradiction. On the one hand, it is composed of men of experience, judgment and traditionalism. On the other...
Krauthammer: The case of the cover-up in search of a crime
It's a Watergate-era cliche that the cover-up is always worse than the crime. In the Mike Flynn affair, we have the first recorded instance of a cover-up in the absence...
Krauthammer: Trump’s travel moratorium is a hopeless disaster
The notion that we had to act immediately because hordes of jihadists in seven Muslim countries were about to board airplanes to blow up Americans is absurd.
Krauthammer: Harry Reid’s supreme gift to the Republican Party
There are many people to thank for the coming accession of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Donald Trump for winning the election. Hillary Clinton for losing it.