Michael Gerson
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Does Hillary have what it takes to build on faith issues?Jul 27, 2016 1:00 am - With Thomas Hobbes now firmly in charge of Republican messaging - the world is a dark, Darwinian bloodbath, unless we turn over power to a strong ruler who will protect ...
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Pence pushes imaginary, corrupt narrativeJul 20, 2016 11:00 pm - On a national convention stage that includes the kettledrum personalities of Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is more in the snare or bongo catego...
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Compliant in Cleveland on tradeJul 20, 2016 1:00 am - CLEVELAND - With precious little attention, the Republican Party's attitude toward international trade has officially shifted. Gone is the 2012 platform's strong endorse...
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In our moment of division, who will lead?Jul 13, 2016 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson On April 4, 1968 - the day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by a sniper - Robert Kennedy gave (arguably) one of the greatest American speec...
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The triumph of cynicism in American politicsJul 10, 2016 1:00 am - "The most amazing thing about the 2016 elections," Roger Porter of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government told me, "is that we are likely to elect someone who close to t...
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A Cuban doctor who moves historyJul 03, 2016 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson When awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George W. Bush in 2007, Dr. Oscar Biscet had a scheduling conflict, being in a Cuban prison. At the...
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The Christian right surrenders faith for politicsJun 26, 2016 1:00 am - Oh God - and I mean the entreaty seriously - the Trump/evangelical summit in New York was just as bad as some of us feared. More than 900 conservative Christian leaders...
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The GOP needs to learn that character mattersJun 21, 2016 1:00 am - Since Thomas Jefferson's concubine, Warren Harding's love nest and Bill Clinton's innovative intern program, Americans have debated the role of character in leadership. ...
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Divided we mournJun 14, 2016 1:00 am - One of the manifold tragedies of the Orlando mass murder is how difficult it is for us to experience it and mourn it together. This killing lies at the intersection of ...
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The party of Lincoln, RIP?Jun 12, 2016 1:00 am - Why such vehemence among Republican leaders in their condemnations of Donald Trump for questioning the objectivity of a federal judge based on his "Mexican heritage"? Th...