Mona Charen

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

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The Race Conversation Starbucks Wants You to Have

Mona Charen

Not for the first time, Americans are being urged to have a “national conversation” about race, but honesty is nowhere to be found.

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National Review Online / March 20, 2015

Don’t Trust Obama on Iran

Mona Charen

President Obama has repeatedly warned of the dangers of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon, but he has shown that he cannot be trusted to prevent it from happening.

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National Review Online / March 13, 2015

Why Marco Rubio Would Be the Strongest Republican Candidate

Mona Charen

The Florida senator has been on the national stage for four years, during which time he has distinguished himself not only as the most inspirational speaker in the Republican party but also as a serious policy innovator.

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National Review Online / March 6, 2015

Some Uncomfortable Questions for Democratic Candidates

Mona Charen

Any Republican who imagined that the sickening double standard that the press applies to Democrats and Republicans would have been sated by six years of genuflection to Obama should now be fully awake.

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National Review Online / February 27, 2015

Islam as a Victim Civilization

Mona Charen

The Obama administration’s refusal to speak plainly about Islamic extremism goes beyond moral equivalence; it seems to border on self-hatred.

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National Review Online / February 18, 2015

Who Benefits from Our Inaction Abroad?

Mona Charen

President Obama believes that once a nuclear agreement is reached, Iran will become a stabilizing power in the region and the world — and this belief has driven many of his foreign policy decisions.

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National Review Online / February 13, 2015

Borrowed Valor

Mona Charen

Spawned in the Vietnam era, the modern Left cut its teeth defaming America, and prominent liberals continue to deny American soldiers their due honor.

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National Review Online / February 6, 2015

The Deal Obama Should Have Made With Cuba

Mona Charen

President Obama wasted an opportunity to secure the freedom of thousands of Cuban political prisoners.

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National Review Online / January 30, 2015

France: Obama’s Paradise

Mona Charen

France seems to have everything that Barack Obama finds wanting in his own country.

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National Review Online / January 23, 2015

A War of Ideas

Mona Charen

Just as they frequently gave the Soviets and other Communists the benefit of the doubt during the Cold War, the Left today refuses to grapple with the meaning of Islamist ideology.

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National Review Online / January 13, 2015

The Battle for U.S. History

Mona Charen

At some point, Common Core may attempt to adopt objectionable history standards. That hasn’t happened yet. In the meantime, the College Board is the battlefield.

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National Review Online / January 9, 2015

The Abortion Distortion

Mona Charen

Jonathan Gruber’s thesis that abortion caused America’s crime drop is almost certainly false. But what’s more revealing is the casual readiness to calculate lost lives as so many numbers on a balance sheet.

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National Review Online / January 3, 2015