Latest articles by David Frum
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The end of birtherism
feature Even fringe conspiracy theorists will have to abandon their birther delusions after Obama releases his birth certificate
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Do you believe in magic?
feature The House speaker's debt-ceiling proposal is smoke and mirrors. That's what's good about it
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If I were a presidential candidate...
feature A look at what the GOP field should have been asked — and how the candidates should have responded — at Saturday's big foreign policy debate
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Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving lessons
feature Sure, things look bad now. But compare today's plight to what our Civil-War-ravaged nation faced during the first official Thanksgiving in 1863
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How Ryan set up Obama's comeback
feature The Republican plan to cut taxes and slash government health care spending gives the president prime opportunities for political victory
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A false lesson on climate change
feature The conduct of climate scientists at the U.K.'s Climate Research Institute was scandalous. But what does that tell us about the validity of climate change?
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Has Obama turned his back on dissidents?
opinion 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.
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The reckless Right courts violence
opinion Hysterical talk from TV and radio hosts may be a cynical marketing exercise. But it's getting too dangerous to ignore.
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Obama's stimulus: Cheap politics, costly consequences
opinion Perhaps results would have been better had the stimulus been directed at the economy instead of at the 2010 campaign.
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Qaddafi's gift to Obama
opinion 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
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Afghanistan—a quagmire worth fighting for
opinion 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.
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The cap-and-trade racket
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The real Jane Harman scandal
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Jack Kemp's gift—and curse—to GOP
opinion Unfortunately, while [his] positive legacy goes for the moment unclaimed, Kemp’s negative legacy has been eagerly embraced. Like some of his political heirs, Kemp not only hoped for the best, too often he was willing to gamble the futu
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How to rebuild the GOP
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The Conciliatory Radical
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The Jewish holiday the rabbis hated
feature Hanukkah is about much more than some crummy miracle with a lamp — but the real meaning was buried centuries ago
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Rick Santorum's flawed plan for working America
feature The surprise GOP frontrunner wants to help blue-collar workers by slashing taxes on manufacturing — all but ignoring the pressing issue of soaring health-care costs
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The Left's wrongheaded anti-Semitism debate
feature Rather unbelievably, liberal writers are bashing a former AIPAC spokesman for keeping a tally of their obnoxious anti-Israel comments
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Tea Party cannibals
feature The Tea Party has an appetite for RINOs, but not for the kind of compromises that bring a party together
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Playing the odds on airport terrorism
feature A new book offers key insights on controlling crime. Can we apply itslessons to thwarting terrorists, too?
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Has the GOP learned its lesson too?
feature Scott Brown won in Massachusetts with a big-tent Republican campaign. Perhaps the GOP is coming to recognize that victory doesn't wear an ideological straitjacket.
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Does Rand Paul understand his own conspiracy theories?
feature Rand Paul has strong beliefs. He's just too muddled to figure out what they might mean
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Election day downer for Republicans
feature Republican leaders insist that unqualified opposition to Obama is the gateway to GOP victory in November. But it's proving hard to win campaigns without ideas.
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