Mona Charen

Mona Charen is a former senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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How the GOP Can Outmaneuver Dems on Higher-Ed Reform

Mona Charen

The deeper problem with higher education today is that the system Democrats have put in place steers benefits to those who don’t need them while leaving many others with no good options.

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National Review Online / June 10, 2015

Amorality in the Service of Politics: Obama Apologizes for Iranian Anti-Semitism

Mona Charen

It’s profoundly worrying — and morally offensive — that President Obama can shrug off the abundant evidence that the Iranian regime is in the grip of dangerous illusions about Jewish power and Jewish evil, and casually compare it to the kind of anti-Semitism found in modern-day Europe and America.

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National Review Online / May 29, 2015

Can Republican Men Criticize Hillary?

Mona Charen

Any criticism of Hillary Clinton is presumptive sexism, while her attacks on opponents are unrestricted. Neat trick if you can pull if off — and she can if Republicans accept the bridle.

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National Review Online / May 22, 2015

A Third-Class Temperament

Mona Charen

Liberals are beginning to discover, long after conservatives did, what it’s like to experience President Obama’s condescension and all-purpose disrespect.

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National Review Online / May 15, 2015

Does the Washington Post Have a Pro-Life Mole?

Mona Charen

What to make of the resolutely pro-choice Washington Post’s lengthy Style-section travelogue following a woman who drove 407 miles to obtain a second-trimester abortion?

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National Review Online / May 8, 2015

On the Couch

Mona Charen

A new book by psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple takes steady aim at modern pseudoscientific explanations that excuse and rationalize immoral behavior.

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Why Won’t the Media Hold Hillary to the Same Standard They Did Bob McDonnell?

Mona Charen

Why is Hillary Clinton evading scrutiny for conduct that is worse than the corruption that landed the former Virginia governor in prison?

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National Review Online / April 28, 2015

The Scandal-Prone Secret Service Is a Dangerous Embarrassment

Mona Charen

The continuing failures of the Secret Service would be a serious worry under any administration, but they are particularly dangerous under this one.

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National Review Online / April 24, 2015

Why Is Obama Parroting Castro Talking Points?

Mona Charen

Had President Obama been interested in reforming the Cuban regime, he could have asked for it; instead, he asked for and received nothing in exchange for everything the Castros wanted.

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National Review Online / April 17, 2015

It’s Time for the GOP to Revisit the Housing Crisis

Mona Charen

The Dodd-Frank legislation ignored government’s role in the 2008 financial crisis completely, merely layering new levels of regulation on banks and other businesses.

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National Review Online / April 10, 2015

The Advantages of Being Disadvantaged

Mona Charen

The inapt comparison of religious-liberty laws to Jim Crow-era discrimination demonstrates that victim status is the only prism through which progressives see American life.

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National Review Online / April 3, 2015

‘Death to America’

Mona Charen

The administration reasons that in ten to 15 years, the Iranian regime will improve. It is willing to gamble that future leaders of Iran won’t be even more radical than those in power now.

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National Review Online / March 27, 2015