BY MONA CHAREN Most Americans who are dissatisfied with President Barack Obama’s leadership are thinking about the poor economy and the misbegotten health care law. That disillusionment is justified — if not tardy. But the foreign policy failures of this administration are likely to be far more consequential, lasting and possibly catastrophic. What we are […]
BY MONA CHAREN Amy Chua, the “Tiger Mother” who launched a thousand panic attacks among ambitious but lenient parents, is back with an almost-great book about why some groups achieve spectacular success in America while others languish. Written with her husband Jed Rubenfeld (both are law professors at Yale), “The Triple Package” examines a number […]
BY MONA CHAREN When seven Democratic senators voted with all of the Republicans to reject Debo Adegbile’s nomination to serve as head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, Harry Reid cried racism. It’s as if Reid was on autopilot, and the aide who usually touches his elbow to correct him wasn’t available. If the […]
BY MONA CHAREN Though you wouldn’t necessarily know it based on news coverage, the United States in the reign of President Barack Obama is enduring the most prolonged period of slow growth and high unemployment since World War II. The president asserts that he saved us from another Great Depression, which, like his claim that […]
BY MONA CHAREN There are many reasons President Barack Obama’s presidency has proven so ineffectual even by its own standards — boosting economic growth, improving health care, preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction, enhancing America’s world reputation. One reason is that Obama is the most ideologically rigid president in American history. He believes […]