Michael Gerson
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Myth busting the GOP's top threeJun 18, 2015 1:00 am - Stealthily demonstrating one of Jeb Bush's more controversial policy views - the need for Common Core history standards - an "anonymous ally" is quoted in The New York T...
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Rand the recklessJun 14, 2015 1:00 am - Rand Paul's presidential campaign, by many recent accounts, is sputtering. The candidate, according to The Atlantic's Molly Ball, is "flailing." His campaign, reports Na...
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The call of the world's broken placesJun 09, 2015 1:00 am - KUAJOK, South Sudan - It is difficult to imagine a place more physically and psychologically removed from the world economy, from centers of global influence such as Was...
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Humanitarian crisis overtaking South SudanJun 03, 2015 1:00 am - KUAJOK, South Sudan - "I wish," a South Sudanese female aid worker said to me, "they had waited five or 10 years before resuming the war." This is what passes for hope i...
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Religious conservatives' shifting roleMay 28, 2015 1:00 am - The Roman historian Tacitus described Emperor Nero's persecution of Christians: "In their very deaths they were made the subjects of sport: for they were covered with th...
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The Clintons' cloud of deviancyMay 26, 2015 11:35 pm - I recall the moment when the press finally turned against Bill Clinton. In 1998, I was a junior writer at U.S. News & World Report, then (for the children in the audienc...
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Corporate irresponsibility over GMOsMay 19, 2015 1:00 am - Pass any Chipotle these days -- and it is my gastronomic preference to pass rather than enter -- and you will see signs claiming credit for removing ingredients that con...
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Seeking mutual respect amid conflictMay 15, 2015 5:00 am - The sign of a first-rate intelligence, according to F. Scott Fitzgerald, is “the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the abi...
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A pastor's faith in BaltimoreMay 12, 2015 1:00 am - BALTIMORE - Upstairs in the church office of Bethel A.M.E. Church, located several blocks from recent rioting, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake waits for a news conference...
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The baggage Hillary bringsApr 30, 2015 1:00 am - Assuming there is no direct quid pro quo in the thicket of Clinton Foundation donations and State Department decisions - an assumption that may make an abettor out of yo...