Latest articles by David Frum
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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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Helen Thomas and other weapons of mass distraction
feature Cast alongside a preening, camera-ready White House press corps, Helen Thomas was different. But she certainly wasn't "tough."
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The pro-life delusion
opinion Is America becoming more prolife? A new poll by Gallup says so. . . . But the poll is wrong. Worse, it's misleading-and threatens to send Republicans careening in precisely the worst possible direction in pursuit of votes they will not find.
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The urgent case to reform conservatism
opinion A new poll suggests that the ranks of conservatives are growing. It also gives recalcitrant conservatives another excuse to resist desperately needed change.
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Sonia Sotomayor is a diversity hire
opinion Diversity hiring is as old as the Republic and as American as deep-dish pizza. Only our hypocrisy about it is new.
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The immigration problem gets bigger
opinion In the halls of power, everyone seems to agree that nothing can or should be done about illegal immigration. They're wrong.
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The stimulus maw
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Bursting the Higher Ed Bubble
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Obama plays to the anti-American crowd
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Give health insurers more clout
opinion Health-insurance companies may be widely detested by the public, but the trouble with American health care is not that these insurers are too strong. It's that they are too weak.
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Obama heads for foreign policy disaster
feature Convinced of his righteousness, President Obama has set a sure course on foreign policy. It's doubtful he sees the train wreck up ahead.
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Obama's bad credit
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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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The GOP's dueling delusional campaign ads
feature Slick ads attacking Jon Huntsman and Tim Pawlenty as reasonable moderates show just how divorced from reality today's Republican Party is
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Obama's self-inflicted Afghan trap
feature The troop surge only increased U.S. dependence on an unreliable ally: Pakistan
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Is Obama's defense of Israel too little, too late?
feature After years of frustrating Israel and its supporters, the U.S. president finally takes a firm stand — though his motives are suspect
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What a union 'take out' looks like
feature When the Teamsters' James Hoffa says he wants to "take out" the Tea Party, what exactly does he mean? A 2003 labor settlement offers some clues
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It's Obama's victory
feature If bin Laden's assassination had gone badly, he would have been blamed. That's why he gets the credit
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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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How immigration reform threatens health reform
opinion If immigration reform legalizes the 10-12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., who pays for their ObamaCare?
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The Krugman question
feature Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is warning — perhaps rightly — that the U.S. has entered an economic depression. His policy prescription is misguided, but where are the conservative solutions?
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Obama's 'courage and candor' gap
feature From the economic crash to energy policy, the president has diagnosed what ails us. It's a pity he doesn't follow his own prescriptions
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