Mona Charen

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Is ‘not Obama’ enough for a Republican rally?

Mona Charen · June 6, 2014 7:33 pm

A yellow ribbon honoring captive U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl tied to a tree in Hailey, Idaho. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

Saving Sgt. Bergdahl

Mona Charen · June 3, 2014 2:46 pm

Crooked contractors, bribery and embezzlement are all subplots in a botched $153 million deal to build a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital near Pittsburgh, according to a report released Tuesday by the agency's inspector general.ÃÂ (Photo: Washington Examiner file)

Why Veterans Affairs service won’t improve

Mona Charen · May 30, 2014 4:04 pm

A woman wipes a tear at a memorial service for the victims and families of Friday's rampage at Harder Stadium on the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara on Tuesday in the Isla Vista area near Goleta, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Pull the plug on the publicity machine for killers like Santa Barbara shooter

Mona Charen · May 28, 2014 2:49 pm

Robert Birgeneau is the recently retired chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. (Screenshot)

Barbaric treatment of retired chancellor by Haverford College is set back — for now

Mona Charen · May 23, 2014 5:42 pm

You could tell that the White House was less than overjoyed at the election of Narendra Modi when the spokesman recited boilerplate praise of a "free and fair election." (AP Photo)

Is Narendra Modi the Margaret Thatcher of India?

Mona Charen · May 20, 2014 3:44 pm

Student loan debt now exceeds all other consumer debt except mortgages. (Thinkstock)

Making college education affordable

Mona Charen · May 16, 2014 4:00 am

Cracks in the dry bed of the Stevens Creek Reservoir in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Democrats and Republicans talking past the voters

Mona Charen · May 13, 2014 4:00 am

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Say ‘no’ to bad science

Mona Charen · May 6, 2014 4:00 am

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham testifies on Capitol Hill on Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Could you lie to a bereaved father? On Hillary Clinton and what happened at Benghazi

Mona Charen · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

Sargent Shriver, President Lyndon Johnson's poverty czar, predicted that welfare state programs would eliminate poverty by 1976. (AP File)

Democratic Party seems to have forgotten about the poor

Mona Charen · April 29, 2014 4:00 am

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor smiles as she speaks at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. (AP/Jessica Hill)

What affirmative action hides

Mona Charen · April 24, 2014 4:00 am