Charles Krauthammer

With the world on fire, the American president goes on ideological holiday.

By international and historical standards, political violence is exceedingly rare in the United States. The last serious outburst was 1968, with its bloody Democratic convention riots. By that standard, 2016 is, as yet, tame. It may not remain so.

It would be a tragedy for American Jews to make the Holocaust the principal legacy bequeathed to their children.

Even evangelicals flock to candidate’s message

State of the world, Year Eight of Barack Obama:

Let’s understand something about the fight to fill the Supreme Court seat of Antonin “Nino” Scalia. This is about nothing but raw power. Any appeal you hear to high principle is phony — brazenly, embarrassingly so.

The New Hampshire primary results have solidified the reigning cliche that the 2016 presidential campaign is an anti-establishment revolt of both the left and the right. Largely overlooked, however, is the role played in setting the national mood by the seven-year legacy of the Obama presidency.

The reigning idiocy of the current political season is the incessant tossing around of “establishment,” an epithet now descending into meaninglessness.

It’s hard to believe that the United States, having resisted the siren song of socialism during its entire 20th-century heyday (the only major democracy to do so), should suddenly succumb to its charms a generation after its intellectual demise.

Give President Barack Obama credit. His Iran nuclear deal may be disastrous, but the packaging was brilliant.