Michael Gerson
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Only the comfortable can retreat from the cause of justiceFeb 11, 2018 12:00 am - For some years, the main political project of the right has been to take control of the government while denigrating the government. Donald Trump drew this strategy to i...
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Lickspittle wing of GOP is now firmly in chargeFeb 06, 2018 12:00 am - By Michael Gerson According to House Speaker Paul Ryan, the declassified Devin Nunes memo - alleging FBI misconduct in the Russia investigation - is "not an indictment o...
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The best response to Trump's dehumanization is humanizationFeb 04, 2018 12:00 am - In general, a State of the Union address is massive in the moment and quickly forgotten. And Donald Trump's first State of the Union address was even more unmemorable th...
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Trump's conspiracy theories endanger democracyJan 31, 2018 12:00 am - Just as Bill Clinton's 1998 State of the Union address is known as the speech after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, Donald Trump's 2018 State of the Union address is ...
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Autonomy, inclusion and the abortion debateJan 21, 2018 12:00 am - Forty-five years after Roe v. Wade was decided, the right to abortion that the Supreme Court discerned remains controversial and disputed. The expectation of legal abor...
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Trump is at war with the central ideal of the RepublicJan 17, 2018 12:00 am - Sometimes it is necessary to begin with the obvious. The claim that America needs more Norwegian migrants and fewer Africans from "sh-thole countries" is racist. It is n...
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In Trump's White House, it's the survival of the servileJan 14, 2018 12:00 am - White House staffers have two general objectives: to serve the president and to please the president. The two do not always coincide. I can recall, as a policy adviser ...
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Trump can't lose a grasp on reality he never possessedJan 11, 2018 12:00 am - Because of President Donald Trump's absence of downward loyalty, his elevation of the morally impaired and his encouragement of staff factionalism, his administration wi...
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In the Iran struggle, information is ammunitionJan 07, 2018 12:00 am - Though events in Iran are murky, their direction is historic. The Iranian regime - which has made a project of destabilizing others through terrorism and regional adven...
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The tale of Tonya Harding, where contempt and mockery meetJan 02, 2018 12:00 am - "I, Tonya" is a movie that is, in places, very difficult to watch. But it is also impossible to look away. This biopic about the briefly famous, then infamous Tonya Hard...