Michael Gerson
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The slow burn of Congo's Ebola outbreakAug 21, 2019 1:00 am - Meanwhile, in the semitropical vastness of eastern Congo, a killer is loose. The second-largest Ebola outbreak in history has entered its second year. It has taken more...
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The emotional resonance of 'Amazing Grace'Aug 18, 2019 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson The concert film "Amazing Grace" accomplishes something I thought impossible - capturing the Holy Ghost on celluloid. Over two days in 1972, director ...
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By spreading conspiracy theories, Trump undermines a belief in truth itselfAug 13, 2019 1:00 am - President Donald Trump will do just about anything to get his daily, hypodermic fix of attention, including the spread of racist tropes and conspiracy theories. And no, ...
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The return of America's cruelest passionAug 02, 2019 1:00 am - I had fully intended to ignore President Donald Trump's latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official, and an African American act...
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Coats' calm competence will be missedJul 31, 2019 1:00 am - With the imminent departure of Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, President Donald Trump has nearly completed his purge of independent minds. Coats' proposed ...
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The contagion of rationalizationJul 21, 2019 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson Susan Brooks. Brian Fitzpatrick. Will Hurd. Fred Upton. You may have read or heard these names in passing, but they are worth lingering upon. These are...
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Trump never takes a vacation from provocationJul 17, 2019 1:00 am - For many, summer is the literary season of lighter novels at the beach or pool. For me - exhausted by the quickening pace of President Donald Trump's moral and mental di...
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Trump celebrates America's victories, but not its characterJul 10, 2019 1:00 am - The celebration of American independence is supposed to be a unifying national ritual. But we are a country with profound differences over the meaning of nationhood itse...
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Trump's endless self-regard is being exploited on the world stageJul 03, 2019 1:00 am - I worked for a leader who was sometimes accused of lacking in the smarts department. But no one I know who spent time with President George W. Bush was left with that im...
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Evangelicals praise Trump at steep moral consequenceJun 30, 2019 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson "There has never been anyone who has defended us and who has fought for us, who we have loved more than Donald J. Trump. No one!" This recent statemen...