Mona Charen: This is what you call a conservative budget?
Donald Trump woke up on Friday, March 23, and realized that a deficit-ballooning $1.3 trillion “omnibus” spending bill was awaiting his signature.
Mona Charen: A little too much reality in the show?
Watching the parade of porn stars, reality TV contestants and former Playboy models lining up to lambaste the president of the United States, as well as the daily trove of stories of wife beating, naked nepotism, gambling and official corruption among his Cabinet members and White House staff, I was reminded of a story Bill Buckley once told.
Mona Charen: Undrained swamp
I don’t know about you, but when I hear the phrase “drain the swamp,” I associate it with clean government, transparency, ethics and such like.
Mona Charen: No Names
An orgy of mutual disgust now greets every mass shooting in America.
Mona Charen: The sometimes difficult truth
Early in George W. Bush’s first term, I was dining with a friend who didn’t agree with my worldview.
Mona Charen: ‘Disturbing overreach’
We are witnesses to an abuse of power by government that represents a test of our democracy.
Mona Charen: Feelings not always a good guide to justice
Conservatives have rightly taken pride in Neil Gorsuch’s calm and cerebral performance at his Senate confirmation hearings.
Mona Charen: O.J. and us
The cover image on iTunes for the Academy Award-winning documentary series “O.J. Simpson: Made in America” is a dripping glove in the design of the stars and stripes.
Mona Charen: National sigh of relief
The morning after President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress, the Dow Jones industrial average shot up 300 points, lifting the stock market above 21,000.
Mona Charen: It’s not what you say; it’s how you say it
On Feb. 9, 1950, at a speech before the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, Sen. Joe McCarthy brandished a piece of paper.
Mona Charen: The anti-business businessman
We’ve been instructed not to take our new president literally but instead seriously (in the felicitous phrasing of Salena Zito).
Mona Charen: Goodbye to one selfie pres, hello to another?
On Feb. 12, 2015, President Obama made a selfie-stick video for BuzzFeed. You may remember it — or perhaps not — because if there’s one thing Barack Obama delivered during his eight years in office, it was plenty of celebration of himself.
Mona Charen: Standing ‘idly by’
Secretary of State John Kerry used the word “conscience” over and over again as he attempted to explain and justify the Obama administration’s decision not to veto a one-sided U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel.
Mona Charen: One man’s impact
On Dec. 19, radio host Charlie Sykes completed his last broadcast for WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Mona Charen: Questions for Rex Tillerson
The American appetite for businessmen in government is a hardy perennial.