Mona Charen
Examiner Columnist
Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and political analyst living in the Washington, D.C., area.
Obama, Vladimir Putin agree to disagree on Syria
By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/17/13 05:15 PM
After House blocks Gitmo closure, Obama taps envoy
By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/17/13 03:25 PM
Is Obama losing young voters?
By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/17/13 05:00 PM
06/17/13 10:35 AM
By MATTHEW LEE | 06/17/13 04:17 AM
By MATTHEW LEE | 06/16/13 05:15 PM
By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/16/13 02:50 PM
CBO score of immigration bill’s effect on the budget comes out tomorrow
By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/17/13 07:10 PM
Janet Yellen's ascendancy shows durability of Ben Bernanke's program
By JOSEPH LAWLER | 06/16/13 04:25 PM
CBO: Debt limit deadline won’t hit until Oct. or Nov.
By PHILIP KLEIN | 06/11/13 04:10 PM
By CONN CARROLL | 06/12/13 08:10 AM
Only you can prevent terrorists from starting forest fires
06/17/13 06:40 PM
Examiner Editorial: Obama puts up dukes and blunders into Syria
06/17/13 10:35 AM
Examiner Editorial: Metadata helps find terrorists -- and Obama voters
06/13/13 06:45 PM
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06/05/13 06:15 PM
Lawmakers seek credit monitoring for veterans
06/14/13 03:11 PM
UPDATED! Chinese, other nations hacked VA computers, officials can't account for everything stolen
By MARK FLATTEN | 06/04/13 02:40 PM
Deaths at Atlanta VA hospital prompt scrutiny
05/25/13 08:50 PM
Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and political analyst living in the Washington, D.C., area.
By Mona Charen | 06/17/13 07:55 PM
In the weeks before the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of Obamacare, the country trembled with anticipation. No such eagerness is evident now -- yet the court is again poised to rattle our world. The case of Fisher v. Texas could upend the system of racial preferences in use...
By Mona Charen | 06/13/13 07:35 PM
The New York Times is pleased with Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 438-page, $20 billion plan to protect New York from the effects of future hurricanes. It notes benignly that the cost is probably an underestimate but agrees with the mayor, "Whether you believe climate change is real or not is beside...
By Mona Charen | 06/10/13 07:00 PM
It would be nice to write a column in praise of President Obama for his vigorous conduct of the war on terror -- to praise his willingness to look for "dots" to connect amid all the electronic noise of the communications web. It would be pleasantly nonpartisan to observe that some conservatives...
By Mona Charen | 06/06/13 07:40 PM
If I were the parent of a child who might be kept alive -- if only for a few more years -- by a lung transplant, I too would move Heaven and Earth to get it done. That the parents of 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan have made her an Internet and cable news celebrity in a desperate effort to get her...
By Mona Charen | 06/03/13 06:15 PM
In the course of his rambling monologue on national security policy delivered at the National Defense University, President Obama gave only glancing attention to the most significant military undertaking of his term in office -- the Afghanistan war. The president scarcely ever mentions...
By Mona Charen | 05/23/13 05:50 PM
If you Google "George W. Bush shredding the constitution," you will get many millions of hits. The New York Times railed, "Ever since 9/11, we have watched Republican lawmakers help Mr. Bush shred the Constitution in the name of fighting terrorism." President Bush attempted to listen in on the...
By Mona Charen | 05/09/13 07:25 PM
Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist and celebrity, has cancelled a planned trip to Israel to participate in a conference sponsored by Israeli President Shimon Peres. His explanation: "I have received a number of emails from Palestinian academics. They are unanimous that I should...
By Mona Charen | 05/06/13 07:15 PM
My iPhone buzzes on a regular basis with "news alerts" from Politico, The Hill and other sources. Politico provides breathless, this-cannot-wait-till-you-get-to-your desk "breaking news" sirens on every hiccup emanating from the White House. On April 22, for example, the news flash permitted me...
By Paul Bedard | 06/17/13
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The beleaguered Eisenhower Memorial Commission holds its next public gathering later this month, and before its members duck-walk into the hearing room, huddled in a hoplite phalanx against a...
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