Mona Charen: If you’re serious about climate…
Do you ever wonder why people run for office? I mean, unless you’re a total cynic, you must assume that at least part of the motivation is wanting to do good.
Mona Charen: Trump’s fatal attraction
The good news is that the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, did not result in a deal — because any deal would have been nothing but a scam perpetrated by Kim Jung Un.
Mona Charen: Unwarranted: Elizabeth Warren’s flawed idea
Elizabeth Warren, one of the — what is it now, 211? — candidates for president, seems intent on proving that having been a Harvard law professor is no bar to fatuous policy prescriptions
Mona Charen: You can’t say that on Twitter
She tweeted that “men are not women,” and for that, Meghan Murphy, feminist journalist, was banned from Twitter.
Mona Charen: Gillette is not wrong
Is the new Gillette razor ad a radical feminist attack on masculinity — the commercial embodiment of a woke sensibility? I was prepared to think so. But having watched it twice, I find a lot to like.
Mona Charen: Collusion is possible
It has become an article of faith in some quarters on the right — well, most — that Robert Mueller’s investigation has found no evidence of collusion with Russia and has accordingly shifted gears to process crimes like lying to the FBI or obstruction of justice. Having decided that this must be true, many have called for Mueller to wrap it up.
Mona Charen: Why are we so sad?
The Centers for Disease Control has delivered sober news — average life expectancy at birth in the United States has declined for a third straight year due to extremely high rates of death from drug overdoses and suicide.
Mona Charen: Truth and its enemies: Making Acosta a federal case
Question: What does CNN’s Jim Acosta crave more than anything?
Mona Charen: Hyperventilating about the caravan
A caravan of ragtag would-be immigrants is making its way through the nations of Honduras (per capita income $4,630), El Salvador (per capita income $7,540), and Guatemala (per capita income $8,000) to Mexico.
Mona Charen: Why do we care about Jamal Khashoggi?
He had an appointment at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to collect some documents he needed to marry his Turkish fiancee — a certificate showing that he was divorced from his first wife. He entered the consulate on Oct. 2 at 1:14 p.m., asking his fiancee to wait outside for him. She did. Until 2 a.m. He never emerged.
Mona Charen: A word on behalf of religion
These have been hard times for American institutions. Over the past four to five decades, confidence in nearly every institution of American life has declined.
Mona Charen: Show trials
Karl Marx, commenting on the ascension of Louis Napoleon, wrote, “History repeats itself: The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”
Mona Charen: Kavanaugh in the #MeToo Era
In the wake of the revelation of Christine Blasey Ford’s identity, some have suggested that her allegation against Brett Kavanaugh will be handled more sensitively than such accusations once were thanks to the #MeToo movement.
Mona Charen: Memo to Dems: Upholding norms is a two-way street
Many of the current president’s critics on the left insist that they are standing up for norms of democratic conduct and for democracy itself.
Mona Charen: There’s more than one kind of corruption
When people think of corruption in high places, they tend to think of elites feathering their own nests.
Mona Charen: What the cave boys teach us about abortion
Twelve boys and their adult coach trapped in a dank, oxygen-deprived cave in Thailand riveted the world’s attention for two weeks.
Mona Charen: Historic snooker
The headline writers adore the word “historic.”
Mona Charen: Children, ‘animals’ and immigrants
Maybe you’ve seen the video of the hero the French have dubbed “Spider-Man.”
Mona Charen: Making sense of Eric Schneiderman
The former attorney general of the state of New York allegedly had a pattern of slapping and choking women with whom he was intimate.
Mona Charen: Ironic consequences of Europe’s war guilt
Adam Armoush is, for the moment, the most famous Jewish victim in the world — and he’s not even Jewish.