Michael Gerson
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Iraq must be saved from extremistsJun 24, 2014 5:01 am - The debate over who lost Iraq is tempting, emotionally satisfying and even, in some cases, historically instructive. But it is not the focus of serious foreign policy th...
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The reality conservatives must faceJun 19, 2014 1:01 am - Various factions of the GOP continue to rummage through House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's astonishing primary loss for confirmation of their pre-existing views. The en...
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The end of illusionsJun 17, 2014 5:01 am - On June 10, President Obama said that the greatest frustration of his presidency was the failure to pass gun control legislation. It was the same day that Mosul, the sec...
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President's legacy trumps all elseJun 08, 2014 5:01 am - As a presidential candidate in 2007, Barack Obama told historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, "I have no desire to be one of those presidents who are just on the list - you see...
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The revolt of the nerdsJun 01, 2014 5:01 am - Parallel to the rise of the Tea Party - with less attention but more potential influence - has been a gathering movement of reform conservatives whom my colleague E.J. D...
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Why the VA scandal sticksMay 27, 2014 5:01 am - Why do some political scandals stick while others fade? The level of media obsession seems to rise and fall as mysteriously as the stock market. On Benghazi, sell. Hold ...
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Keeping the Holocaust in memoryMay 22, 2014 5:01 am - Several years ago, I attended the bar mitzvah of a friend's son. Uniquely in my experience - and, I'd bet, most people's experience - all of the boy's four grandparents ...
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Our disconnected working classMay 18, 2014 5:01 am - Much about the future health of the republic depends on Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam being wrong. Given the track record of Harvard social scientists, this might ap...
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Republicans regroupingMay 15, 2014 5:01 am - The unfolding GOP primary season is clarifying two points: The Republican establishment is back, and it is more conservative than you'd think. In the North Carolina Sena...
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The enduring benefits of vaccinationMay 07, 2014 5:01 am - Recently I wrote about a type of scientific denialism - often practiced by religious people - that cheats children out of the wonders of modern cosmology and encourages ...