Michael Gerson
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America's politicians are feeding the Islamic State narrativeNov 18, 2015 5:00 am - As careful as we should be in drawing lessons from tragedy - and there is something particularly disgraceful in mounting a political soapbox at a funeral - the horrors e...
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GOP voters' love of the unseriousNov 11, 2015 12:00 am - Welcome to the vetting season, in which presidential candidate resumes are pumped full of air, submerged in water and tested for bubbles like an inner tube. None of the...
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Times changing, but Christians still have influence in AmericaNov 04, 2015 12:00 am - "Today," said Ted Cruz when the Supreme Court's gay marriage decision came down, "is some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation's history." Which is quite a claim, as th...
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Obama's pose of victory in degraded MideastNov 01, 2015 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson Break out the name tags and Styrofoam-flavored coffee; it is conference season for Iran. Iran's foreign minister will attend the Vienna talks on Syria...
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The impotent politics of 'end times'Oct 28, 2015 1:00 am - The end is near. Or not. At various points in American history, popular preaching has warned that history itself was about to culminate and cease. Many sermons of the re...
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The consequences of failing the Ryan TestOct 25, 2015 1:00 am - Having tested the thickness of the political ice, Paul Ryan seems convinced it will support the weight of a House speaker. Given the nature of the Republican coalition (...
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The children among the ruins of violenceOct 20, 2015 5:33 am - BEIRUT, Lebanon - A 5-year-old Syrian refugee explains the picture he has drawn: "This is a boy. This is a bed. This is a bomb. This is an apple." Wondering if the apple...
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The Kemp Way is still an optionOct 13, 2015 1:00 am - Other than in its original application, most exercises in WWXD - "What would X do?" with X being, say, Lincoln, or Martin Luther King Jr., or Churchill - are less than u...
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Presidential tantrums won't end gun violenceOct 07, 2015 1:00 am - Following the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College, a "smoldering" (as one commentator put it) President Obama gave a revealing speech - a clarification, a culminat...
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Francis' profound personalismSep 30, 2015 1:00 am - Pope Francis has delivered to Congress his State of the Soul address - historically sophisticated, gracefully appropriate, morally ambitious - and I am all for making it...