Michael Gerson
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Shrinking the AIDS epidemic mapDec 03, 2014 4:01 am - My college roommate - the most immediately likable person I've ever met, a man who would now be such a present to the world - died of AIDS at the age of 30. Back then, p...
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Obama abandons the 'harder path'Nov 23, 2014 4:01 am - There are any number of marvelous things one might do as president, if Congress were not such a checked and balanced mess. But future presidents now have a new method at...
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The gathering storm in WashingtonNov 18, 2014 4:01 am - When Abraham Lincoln first presented a version of the Emancipation Proclamation to his Cabinet, Secretary of State William Seward warned that issuing it after a defeat w...
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Rising, but bringing everyone else alongNov 13, 2014 4:01 am - A week after the midterm elections, Republicans are still browsing through the jewelry store of their victories, admiring this bauble and that. Most of their Senate wins...
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Obama's 'gifts' to the nationNov 11, 2014 4:01 am - Barack Obama is a gifted politician. But a president is judged by the gifts he leaves behind. Following his fourth national election as party leader, Democrats are takin...
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Only Reagan can be ReaganNov 05, 2014 12:01 am - The Republican debate about the shape of the political future has begun, typically for conservatives, as a fight about the past. As President Obama has become a Jimmy Ca...
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Gates will use his Ebola moment to expand fight against diseaseOct 31, 2014 1:01 am - "Ebola has reminded people that it is not just poor people who can die of infectious disease," Bill Gates tells me, in a characteristically matter-of-fact tone. In a t...
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A lesson in the lavishness of graceOct 28, 2014 1:01 am - In an older, gentrifying, suburban Virginia neighborhood - the kind with porch flags and pumpkins on the front steps - I am welcomed at an indistinguishable door to an e...
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Obama's tendency toward inactionOct 12, 2014 5:01 am - Disloyal or not, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has delivered a root-and-branch critique of President Obama's approach to the Middle East. In his new book, "Wor...
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On Ebola, hard choicesOct 08, 2014 1:01 am - Here is what officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health have been telling us: America has some Ebola infections (a...