Michael Gerson
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Feeling aggrieved, evangelicals see Trump as a defenderMay 16, 2017 1:00 am - Even in an era of marriage diversity, it remains the most unlikely match: Donald Trump and his loyal evangelical base. In the compulsively transgressive, foul-mouthed, l...
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On Afghanistan, Trump could learn from BushMay 05, 2017 1:00 am - Between the solutionless horror of North Korean nukes and the self-inflicted damage of Twitter diplomacy lies a decision that, while important in itself, will indicate a...
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The language of hatred, increasingly normalized by TrumpMay 03, 2017 1:00 am - For those who claim that Donald Trump has been pasteurized and homogenized by the presidency, his sour, 100th-day speech in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was inconvenient. ...
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Trump's hard-hearted budget weakens American powerApr 19, 2017 1:00 am - There was an unseemly glee on the part of some Trump supporters in the use of the MOAB - Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb - against a target in Afghanistan. A powerful na...
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Was Trump's Syria strike a moral impulse or a policy change?Apr 09, 2017 1:00 am - It is either a turning point or a welcome aberration that Donald Trump found the cruelly extinguished lives of Syrian children to be compelling (or at least contributory...
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Fox scandals are a fetid reminder that sexism lurks in the workplaceApr 05, 2017 1:00 am - Reading the accumulated sexual harassment accusations against Fox News host Bill O'Reilly and former network executive Roger Ailes is like a quick dip in a sewage treatm...
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The world watches the shrinking of the American presidencyMar 21, 2017 1:00 am - It is difficult to overestimate the geopolitical risks of this moment - or the (both disturbed and eager) global scrutiny now being given to the American president. Agg...
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Republicans are defining lunacy downMar 15, 2017 1:00 am - The role of conspiracy theories has been consistently underestimated in the rise and appeal of President Trump. Trump came to the political attention of most Republican...
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A heartfelt look at how evangelical gays are finding their placeFeb 26, 2017 12:00 am - There will be no Academy Award for young filmmaker Stephen Cone's considerable achievement: Best Movie Depiction of the Evangelical Subculture Without Lampooning It. Con...
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America's sacred fire must not be dousedFeb 22, 2017 12:00 am - "Well, I preach the Church without Christ," says a vivid Flannery O'Connor character named Hazel Motes. "I'm member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see...