Michael Gerson
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Negotiating from weakness a threat to MideastMar 09, 2015 12:00 am - Over the years, President Obama has been criticized and praised - but mainly praised - for lacking a driving foreign policy ideology. It seemed to be one of the "childis...
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Getting Africa's health systems to be self-reliantMar 04, 2015 12:00 am - After a storied history of revolutionary defiance toward America - in which Tanzania played host to Angela Davis, Huey Newton and Malcolm X - this country can hardly get...
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The political act of judging ChristiansFeb 27, 2015 12:00 am - When Scott Walker pronounced himself agnostic about President Obama's patriotism and Christian faith, it must have seemed like a clever formulation. "I've never asked hi...
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Taming government's 'Leviathan by proxy'Feb 24, 2015 12:00 am - For the six years of the Obama presidency, or perhaps the last 35 years since Ronald Reagan's election, American politics has been dominated by a debate on the size and ...
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A call for 'patient pluralism'Feb 15, 2015 12:00 am - The rapidity of progress by the gay rights movement - from Stonewall to likely Supreme Court vindication of gay marriage in a historical blink - is causing a series of s...
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Condemning Islam is the wrong courseFeb 11, 2015 12:00 am - Days after the video appeared of a Jordanian pilot horribly burned to death by an Islamic State death squad, President Obama told the National Prayer Breakfast that all ...
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Unmasking Rand PaulFeb 08, 2015 12:00 am - It has become the Rand Paul pattern: A few weeks paddling vigorously in the mainstream, followed by a lapse into authenticity, followed by transparent damage control, fo...
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An invasion of artificial outrageFeb 03, 2015 12:00 am - The invasion, evidently, has begun. “What's not acceptable,” Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana explained recently, “is people that want to come and conquer us.” Yes, the c...
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Republicans in the immigration minefieldJan 29, 2015 5:00 am - WASHINGTON — Any Republican event convened by Rep. Steven King — he of “calves the size of cantaloupes” fame — could easily have degenerated into a festival of immigrant...
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The fight for the middle classJan 27, 2015 12:01 am - When you strip away all the layers of cockiness, preachiness and delusion in President Obama's 2015 State of the Union address, you find more cockiness, preachiness and ...