Michael Gerson
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'The road to character'Apr 26, 2015 1:00 am - Most of us have an image of the counterculture, shaped by memory or mythmaking, that involves Haight-Ashbury, flea-market clothing, free love and a haze of pot smoke. Bu...
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Desperately seeking a legacyApr 19, 2015 1:00 am - "I have never seen anything like it." So I was told by a former U.S. official, who had seen much as a senior diplomat. It has become hard to deny that the rollout of the...
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Enter the reform conservativesApr 15, 2015 1:00 am - The juxtaposition of Hillary Clinton's and Marco Rubio's announcements for president illustrates a serious problem for American progressivism: Its political bench looks ...
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If our heroism is hopeless ...Apr 09, 2015 1:00 am - The apocalypse has been much on my mind. This is not only because Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is now more or less officially in charge of a nuclear threshold state, or becaus...
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Obama's real challenge with IranApr 05, 2015 1:00 am - Whatever else the Obama administration accomplished in the Iran nuclear framework, it did a good job keeping the bar of expectations low and then clearing it. Many assu...
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Being prepared is key for 'the next epidemic'Mar 31, 2015 1:00 am - "Of all the things that could kill more than 10 million people around the world," writes philanthropist Bill Gates in The New England Journal of Medicine, "the most like...
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How to block a bad deal with IranMar 25, 2015 1:00 am - It is the common temptation of Republicans and Democrats to support a strong executive when it does things they like, and to condemn it when it does things they don't. T...
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Hillary's Nixonian path to officeMar 22, 2015 1:00 am - The effective kickoff of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was an act of deck clearing so breathtaking, so brazen, that it remains difficult to process. A former ...
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Cotton letter: The roughest of draftsMar 16, 2015 1:00 am - The true scandal of the Tom Cotton letter to Iranian leaders is the manner in which the Republican Senate apparently conducts its affairs. The document was crafted by a...
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Selma, Ferguson and our perpetual challengeMar 11, 2015 1:00 am - The juxtaposition of the Justice Department's damning Ferguson report and President Obama's fine speech to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was coincidental. B...