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<title><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14565.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></description><category domain="14565">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Enduring Miracle of the U.S. Constitution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-the-enduring-miracle-of-the-american-constitution/2018/11/29/fb8879d2-f405-11e8-aeea-b85fd44449f5_story.html?utm_term=.968df3a4ec42</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This column is excerpted from Charles Krauthammer&rsquo;s forthcoming posthumous book, &ldquo;The Point of It All.&rdquo; The book and column were edited by his son, Daniel Krauthammer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Goodbye to Colleagues, Friends and Viewers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2018/06/08/fox-news-charles-krauthammer-says-goodbye-to-colleagues-friends-and-viewers.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months. I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I&rsquo;m afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What to Do for Little Charlie Gard]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/charles-krauthammer-what-to-do-for-little-charlie-gard/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One cannot imagine a more wrenching moral dilemma than the case of little Charlie Gard. He is a beautiful 11-month-old boy with an incurable genetic disease. It depletes his cells' energy-producing structures (the mitochondria), thereby progressively ravaging his organs. He cannot hear,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Defense Has Collapsed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump-defense-collapsed-article-1.3324596</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Russia scandal has entered a new phase and there&rsquo;s no going back. For six months, the White House claimed that this scandal was nothing more than innuendo about Trump-campaign collusion with Russia in meddling in the 2016 election. Innuendo for which no concrete evidence had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[North Korea: The Rubicon Is Crossed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/charles-krauthammer-north-korea-the-rubicon-is-crossed/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Across 25 years and five administrations, we have kicked the North Korean can down the road. We are now out of road.On July 4, North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile apparently capable of hitting the United States. As yet, only Alaska. Soon, every American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Do They Even Play the Game?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/2017/06/30/why-do-they-even-play-the-game-2/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In mathematics, when you're convinced of some eternal truth but can't quite prove it, you offer it as a hypothesis]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Undermined NATO's Deterrent Effect]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448194/trump-refuses-affirm-nato-article-5</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So what if, in his speech last week to NATO, Donald Trump didn&rsquo;t explicitly reaffirm the provision that an attack on one is an attack on all? What&rsquo;s the big deal? Didn&rsquo;t he affirm a general commitment to NATO during his visit? Hadn&rsquo;t he earlier sent his vice...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mideast Peace Starts in Saudi Arabia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/mideast-peace-starts-arabia-article-1.3196674</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The quixotic American pursuit of Middle East peace is a perennial. It invariably fails, yet every administration feels compelled to give it a try. The Trump administration is no different.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Guardrails of American Democracy Can't Contain Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447748/donald-trump-american-democracy-25th-amendment-removal-bad-idea</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pleasant surprise of the First 100 Days is over. The action was hectic, heated, often confused, but well within the bounds of normalcy. Policy (e.g., health care) was being hashed out, a Supreme Court nominee confirmed, foreign policy challenges (e.g. North Korea) addressed. Donald...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is a Loud and Bombastic Charlatan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump-normalized-scary-article-1.3137896</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With near unanimity, my never-Trump friends confess a sense of relief. It could have been worse.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Populism on Pause]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447153/populism-usa-britain-france</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yesterday's conventional wisdom: A wave of insurgent populism is sweeping the West, threatening its foundational institutions &mdash; the European Union, the Western alliance, even liberal democracy itself. Today's conventional wisdom (post-first-round French presidential election): The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Have Cards to Play With N. Korea]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/charles-krauthammer-with-north-korea-we-do-have-cards-to-play/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The crisis with North Korea may appear trumped up. It's not. Given that Pyongyang has had nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles for more than a decade, why the panic now? Because North Korea is headed for a nuclear breakout. The regime has openly declared that it is racing to develop an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Great Reversal -- for Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump-great-reversal-article-1.3053438</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The world is agog at Donald Trump's head-snapping foreign-policy reversal. He runs on a platform of America First. He renounces the role of world policeman. He excoriates parasitic foreigners that (I paraphrase) suck dry our precious bodily fluids &mdash; and these are allies! On April...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Karma, Precedent, and the Nuclear Option]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446515/supreme-court-nomination-filibuster-gone</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For euphemism, dissimulation and outright hypocrisy, there is nothing quite as entertaining as the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Single-Payer, the Revolution in Waiting]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/single-payer-health-care-revolution-waiting-article-1.3014506</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[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 the House Republicans appear unable to reconcile their differences.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Nation's Immune System at Work]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/nation-immune-system-work-article-1.3007200</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let me explain. Donald Trump&rsquo;s triumph last year was based on a frontal attack on the Washington &ldquo;establishment,&rdquo; that all-powerful, supremely cynical, bipartisan &ldquo;cartel&rdquo; (as Ted Cruz would have it) that allegedly runs everything. Yet the establishment...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real World of Obamacare Repeal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-real-world-of-obamacare-repeal/2017/03/16/cba55228-0a71-11e7-b77c-0047d15a24e0_story.html?utm_term=.101fbfef8b8a</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, but for governments it&rsquo;s not that easy. Once something is given &mdash; say, health insurance coverage to 20 million Americans &mdash; you take it away at your peril. This is true for any government benefit, but especially for health care....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Down the Conspiracy Rabbit Hole We Go]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/conspiracy-rabbit-hole-article-1.2993661</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When he was Ronald Reagan&rsquo;s secretary of state, George Shultz was once asked about the CIA&rsquo;s disavowal of involvement in a mysterious recent bombing in Lebanon. Replied Shultz: &ldquo;If the CIA denies something, it&rsquo;s denied.&rdquo;]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Revolt of the Attorneys General]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/charles-krauthammer-revolt-of-the-attorneys-general/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Among the many unintended legacies of Barack Obama, one has gone largely unnoticed: the emergence of a novel form of resistance to executive overreach, a check-and-balance improvised in reaction to his various presidential power grabs.It's the revolt of the state attorneys general,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's 'Madman Theory' Diplomacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/charles-krauthammer-trump-and-the-madman-theory/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[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. Meaning, they are all very much within the parameters of mainstream American internationalism as practiced since 1945....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Disastrous Travel Moratorium]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-travel-moratorium-a-hopeless-disaster/2017/02/09/53e3bdde-eef5-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Stupid but legal. Such is the Trump administration's travel ban for people from seven Muslim countries. Of course, as with almost everything in American life, what should be a policy or even a moral issue becomes a legal one. The judicial challenge should have been given short shrift,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harry Reid's Gift to Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/harry-reid-gift-gop-article-1.2962921</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[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. Mitch McConnell for holding open the high court seat through 2016, resolute and immovable against furious (and hypocritical)...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Marks Large, Scary Shift in US Global Leadership]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump-america-recedes-article-1.2956849</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The flurry of bold executive orders and of highly provocative Cabinet nominations (such as a secretary of education who actually believes in school choice) has been encouraging to conservative skeptics of Donald Trump. But it shouldn&rsquo;t erase the troubling memory of one major...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Revealing Final Acts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/obama-revealing-final-acts-article-1.2950771</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama did not go out quietly. His unquiet final acts were, in part, overshadowed by a successor who refused to come in quietly and, in part, by Obama&rsquo;s own endless, sentimental farewell tour. But there was nothing nostalgic or sentimental about Obama&rsquo;s last acts. Two...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happened to the Honeymoon?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/charles-krauthammer-what-happened-to-the-honeymoon/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The shortest honeymoon on record is officially over. Normally, newly elected presidents enjoy a wave of goodwill that allows them to fly high at least through their first 100 days. Donald Trump has not yet been sworn in and the honeymoon has already come and gone. Presidents-elect...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[North Korea: Cold War Relic, Real-Time Threat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/north-korea-cold-war-relic-real-time-threat-article-1.2936352</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You can kick the can down the road, but when Kim Jong Un announces, as he did last Sunday, that]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Late Hit on Israel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443416/security-council-settlements-resolution-shameful-betrayal-obama</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the chips are down, I have Israel's back.   &mdash; Barack Obama, AIPAC conference, March 4, 2012The audience &mdash; overwhelmingly Jewish, passionately pro-Israel, and supremely gullible &mdash; applauded wildly. Four years later &mdash; his last election behind him, with a month...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Aleppo and American Decline]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/aleppo-american-decline-article-1.2920663</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fall of Aleppo just weeks before Barack Obama leaves office is a fitting stamp on his Middle East policy of retreat and withdrawal. The pitiable pictures from the devastated city showed the true cost of Obama&rsquo;s abdication. For which he seems to have few regrets, however. In his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Dems, Identity Politics Is Not the Way Back]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/road-back-democrats-identity-politics-not-article-1.2885367</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the more salutary outcomes of the recent election is that Democrats are finally beginning to question the wisdom of basing their fortunes on identity politics. Having counted on the allegiance of African-Americans, Hispanics, gays, unmarried women and the young &mdash; and winning...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Can Keep Winning]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/charles-krauthammer-trump-winning-article-1.2868210</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Krauthammer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump won fair and square and, as Hillary Clinton said in her concession speech, is owed an open mind...]]></description>
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