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Charles Krauthammer

Opinion writerWashington, D.C.

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The United States is a spacefaring nation again thanks to the likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

  • Dec 31, 2015

Sometimes, you just have to break the dietary rules and hope for the best.

  • Dec 24, 2015

So what if the climate deal and Iran deal aren’t actual agreements? Obama needs accomplishments.

  • Dec 17, 2015

His would-be Muslim ban is an impractical, absurd distraction from real issues.

  • Dec 10, 2015

The debate has become a national disgrace.

  • Nov 26, 2015

The president is more interested in fighting Republicans than the Islamic State.

  • Nov 19, 2015

Republican candidates begin leaving the entertainment phase and entering the serious season.

  • Nov 12, 2015

The GOP presidential candidates squander their victory over CNBC by debating room temperature.

  • Nov 5, 2015

From Fast and Furious to Benghazi, House Republicans have botched their committee hearings.

  • Oct 29, 2015

From Sebelius to Rahm to Warren to Fluke to Clinton.

  • Sep 6, 2012
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Charles Krauthammer writes a weekly political column that runs on Fridays. He is also a Fox News commentator and appears nightly on “Special Report with Bret Baier.” Krauthammer joined The Post as a columnist in 1984, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1987 for “his witty and insightful columns on national issues.” Krauthammer began his journalism career at The New Republic, where he was a writer and editor and won the 1984 National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism. Before going into journalism, he was a speechwriter for Vice President Walter Mondale in 1980, he helped direct planning in psychiatric research for the Carter administration, and he practiced medicine for three years as a resident and then chief resident in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Krauthammer was born in New York City and grew up in Montreal, Quebec. He attended McGill University, Balliol College, Oxford and Harvard Medical School.
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