Mona Charen
Mona Charen is a former senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Mona Charen is a former senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
What a Senate Acquittal in an Impeachment Trial Will Mean
Mona Charen
If, as seems all but certain, President Trump is not removed by the Senate, the standard about what is impeachable conduct will have been ratcheted higher.
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National Review Online / December 18, 2019
U.S. Blocks Examination of Crimes against Humanity
Mona Charen
Despite President Trump’s tactics, North Korea continues to test missiles, manufacture nuclear fuel, threaten its neighbors, and abuse its suffering population.
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National Review Online / December 12, 2019
Red-State Death, Blue-State Health?
Mona Charen
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman uses ‘deaths of despair’ as a partisan bludgeon.
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National Review Online / December 5, 2019
Trump’s War-Crimes Pardons Weaken Our Military’s Moral Fiber
Mona Charen
An ethically upright military takes decades or even centuries to build. It can be undone much more quickly.
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National Review Online / November 27, 2019
Is Caitlin Flanagan Right about the Abortion Debate?
Mona Charen
Caitlin Flanagan is an affecting writer, but the argument she makes about abortion — movingly told as it is — is not quite convincing.
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National Review Online / November 21, 2019
What Is the American Idea?
Mona Charen
Richard Brookhiser’s Give Me Liberty is a defense of what he calls “America’s Exceptional Idea,” an elegant and lyrical case for the ideal that has shaped America: liberty.
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National Review Online / November 15, 2019
We Need to Get Serious about Putting Our Fiscal House in Order
Mona Charen
Though fewer and fewer Americans care to admit it, the country’s long-term deficit and debt problems aren’t going away.
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National Review Online / November 8, 2019
Impeachment for Thee but Not for Me
Mona Charen
Wouldn’t our culture be healthier if Democrats had not chosen tribalism over principle in defending Bill Clinton from impeachment? Republicans today are flirting with creating their own awful precedent.
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National Review Online / November 1, 2019
No Quid Pro Quo?
Mona Charen
As evidence mounts, the GOP defense of Trump’s call is falling apart.
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National Review Online / October 25, 2019
Elizabeth Warren Is Not Honest
Mona Charen
For someone who touts herself as a scholar, Elizabeth Warren resorts to anecdotes in a most disingenuous fashion.
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National Review Online / October 18, 2019
Accountability in the Trump Administration
Mona Charen
Donald Trump is testing whether he can claim immunity from the rule of law. That’s the plain meaning of the announcement that his administration will not cooperate in any way with the House impeachment inquiry.
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National Review Online / October 11, 2019
The Telling Taciturnity of Trump Staffers
Mona Charen
If President Trump’s appointees won’t even stand up straight and assert their own dignity, it’s not surprising that they shrink from vindicating the honor of the United States and the rule of law.
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National Review Online / October 4, 2019