Michael Gerson
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A GOP led by Trump will fail, and deserve itAug 02, 2015 1:00 am - At this point in the 2016 presidential campaign, the noble, elusive stag of political rhetoric is pretty much roadkill. This judgment is unfair to a few candidates - Ric...
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Are Democrats coronating a wounded queen?Jul 28, 2015 1:00 am - The most surprising revelation in recent presidential polling is not that Donald Trump has low favorability in key states - a welcome indicator of national sanity - but ...
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Rick Perry emerges as a responsible voiceJul 24, 2015 5:33 am - In the early days of the 2016 Republican campaign - an unusually important period, in which the viability of the GOP is being defended against a toxic form of populism -...
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An appalling trivialization of lifeJul 21, 2015 5:25 am - WASHINGTON - At first, it seemed like an Internet hoax. A doctor, over a glass of wine and a salad, coldly describes the extraction and monetization of fetal body parts...
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Defrauding the nation's poorJul 14, 2015 1:00 am - In that portion of the presidential field that does not view self-government as a stage for self-promotion, prejudice and blithering ignorance, one of the more encouragi...
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Obama plays the lottery in the Middle EastJul 13, 2015 11:00 pm - As the world and the U.S. Congress examine the Iran deal's fine print, the strategic large print is clear enough. "Obama wants this [deal] as a centerpiece of his legacy...
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The high stakes of Congress' Iran momentJul 07, 2015 1:00 am - On the morning of April 14, speaking to a meeting of about 55 senators, Secretary of State John Kerry argued against passage of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, cl...
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Religious and gay rights must coexistJul 02, 2015 1:00 am - It is often the fate of conservatives to be concerned about the fire code and occupancy limit at someone else's party. Never more conspicuously than concerning the Supre...
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A deeper look at pope's climate change statementJun 28, 2015 1:00 am - Reducing Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si" to a white paper on global warming is, in George Weigel's fitting analogy, "akin to reading 'Moby Dick' as if it were a tr...
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Charleston Christians giving a lesson in the 'strength to love'Jun 24, 2015 1:00 am - When many relatives of those cruelly murdered in Charleston - by a man who talked and prayed with his victims for an hour before systematically gunning them down - publi...