David Frum
David Frum
Immigration: A hot-button issue on ice
Less than two years ago, illegal immigration was roiling the Republican base and fueling a divisive national debate. What happened?
It's Army vs. CIA in Afghanistan
A front-page story in The New York Times reveals the U.S. Army has initiated another shock-and-awe campaign. This time, the enemy is the CIA.
Prelude to Republican fratricide
GOP candidates in New York and New Jersey should be cruising to victory this November. But angry conservatives would rather hand power to Democrats than help moderate Republicans win.
Is Obama a brute or a pushover?
Republicans keep seeing double when they look at the president. For a clearer view, they should watch less Glenn Beck and more Saturday Night Live.
The trillion-dollar tedium of health reform
Crucial decisions are being made on health reform, with vast amounts of money and power at stake. Too bad the public won't know what's been decided until after the fact.
Obama's cynical Afghan ploy
As a candidate, Barack Obama demanded that we commit ourselves to the "real war" in Afghanistan. Now that he's in office, is he about to declare "mission accomplished?"
Obama plays to the anti-American crowd
At the U.N., the president told anti-Americans what they like to hear. The danger is that he believes not only in his inflated view of himself, but in his words, too.
Obama heads for foreign policy disaster
Convinced of his righteousness, President Obama has set a sure course on foreign policy. It's doubtful he sees the train wreck up ahead.
Give health insurers more clout
Health-insurance companies may be widely detested by the public, but the trouble with American health care is not that these insurers are too strong. It's that they are too weak.
Afghanistan—a quagmire worth fighting for
George Will may be right that Afghanistan is not the Good War. But it's a "good enough" war, and despite all the travails, the U.S. can't afford to lose it.
Qaddafi's gift to Obama
The hero's welcome given to the convicted Lockerbie bomber in Tripoli diverted media attention from embarrassing questions about the bomber's release to the much easier issue of the bomber's reception. ... President Obama is unlikely now to have to explain any of the strange mysteries and contradictions in his administration's handling of the affair.
Obama's stimulus: Cheap politics, costly consequences
Perhaps results would have been better had the stimulus been directed at the economy instead of at the 2010 campaign.
The reckless Right courts violence
Hysterical talk from TV and radio hosts may be a cynical marketing exercise. But it's getting too dangerous to ignore.
Has Obama turned his back on dissidents?
President Obama has been careful not to inject himself into the turmoil of Iranian politics. But there are times when an American president must stand up for human rights.
Sympathy for the Liberals
Everything was in place to achieve the greatest of liberal policy dreams—universal health care. Then the Senate got to work.
On health-care, GOP faces risk, too
Obama's overreaching health-care reform is in trouble. But are Republicans, too?
The GOP's same old tax cut refrain
Perpetually replaying the greatest hits of the Reagan years, today's conservatives have failed to develop new ideas to meet new challenges.
The Republicans' dwindling options
With Sarah Palin and Mark Sanford out of the running, the GOP has to hope that Mitt Romney shows his good side in 2012.
France's nuclear solution
What if there were a way to get around nuclear energy's big problem— radioactive waste? There is.
How to kill an economy
In an effort to make finance "boring" again, Obama's new regulations will prop up the biggest institutions and put roadblocks in the way of newcomers. They may also provide an opening for conservatives.
