Latest articles by David Frum
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Life in the real world
feature On Main Street, it looks like there aren't any politicians willing to stand up for America's middle class
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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The trillion-dollar tedium of health reform
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The stimulus roundabout
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The stimulus maw
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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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Bursting the Higher Ed Bubble
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The alternative to the Fed plan is: Nothing
feature Ask the Fed's critics what they would do instead
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