Michael Gerson
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Would you put your trust in America?Apr 03, 2018 1:00 am - As an exercise in both empathy and grand strategy, try to imagine being a pro-American Syrian. Perhaps you saw two of your children killed when a tank attacked your hom...
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Conservatives can't split the difference on TrumpMar 30, 2018 1:00 am - Is it time for anti-Trump conservatives to recognize that they have lost the political and policy battle within the GOP and to accommodate themselves as best they can to...
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A porn star, a president and credibilityMar 27, 2018 1:00 am - Some who watched the Stormy Daniels interview on "60 Minutes" claimed it contained nothing new. On national television, an adult performer alleged that Donald Trump enga...
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Is Trump's coziness with Putin causing the White House to panic?Mar 25, 2018 1:00 am - As a former presidential staffer, I have little patience for leaks. Any president deserves and requires the ability to conduct policy discussions in private. Leaks are a...
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We are not 'globalists'; we are AmericansMar 21, 2018 1:00 am - At one haunted moment in American history - early in 1939, not long after Kristallnacht - Senator Robert Wagner, a New York Democrat, and Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers, a Mas...
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The good news is Trump's not capable of authoritarianism he lovesMar 08, 2018 12:00 am - Here is a question at the crossroads of psychology and political philosophy: How can a leader so enamored by authoritarianism be so allergic to order? Donald Trump rose...
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The end of two-wing partiesMar 04, 2018 12:00 am - On the evidence of an October 2017 vote - concerning legislation that would have restricted abortions after 20 weeks' gestation - there are three pro-life Democrats in t...
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Apocalyptic thinking paralyzes politics of gun violenceFeb 27, 2018 12:00 am - It is one of the dirty habits of our political discourse that so many people use thermonuclear rhetorical weapons as a first resort. It is not enough for defenders of gu...
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Billy Graham was consumed by graceFeb 20, 2018 10:00 pm - Billy Graham was easily the most influential evangelical Christian of the 20th century - a man at home in the historical company of George Whitefield and John Wesley. B...
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Ending the Chicago massacre will require miracles of mercyFeb 20, 2018 12:00 am - On the same day as the Parkland school shooting, I found myself on the south side of Chicago, talking with the victims and perpetrators of a different, continuing massac...