Michael Gerson
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An education challenge for GOPMay 01, 2014 5:01 am - In one of the lower policy points during the 2012 Republican primary campaign, Rick Santorum told a Tea Party group, "President Obama once said he wants everybody in Ame...
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Science and our beliefsApr 27, 2014 1:00 am - In the late 1920s, astronomer Edwin Hubble established that the light we detect from galaxies is shifted toward the redder colors of the spectrum, indicating that they a...
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Where the only rule is terrorApr 23, 2014 5:01 am - BANGUI, Central African Republic - The tents of displaced people reach nearly up to the runway at the airport - the first impression of a nation in flight and in fear. B...
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The healing in RwandaApr 15, 2014 5:01 am - KIGALI, Rwanda - At the 20th commemoration of the Rwandan genocide, the most moving moments were unplanned. In the audience at Amahoro Stadium, first one woman, then ano...
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Lost power of deliberation fuels Senate dysfunctionApr 07, 2014 11:00 pm - God saves the Queen. He saves this Honorable Court. But who will save the United States Senate? The venerable institution that Democrats control and Republicans covet ha...
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Movies lacking graceApr 03, 2014 5:01 am - Part of this year's Lenten discipline for many religious people has been to see two bad religious movies, "Noah" and "God's Not Dead." Both left me longing for the compa...
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Political skills for divine purposesMar 30, 2014 5:01 am - When a pope meets a president - and the Vicar of Christ gets pulled into political coverage - trivialization ensues. As a reporter, I covered the St. Louis meeting betwe...
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Can Obama rise to Carter's level?Mar 23, 2014 5:01 am - As Winston Churchill might have said, the battle for Crimea is over. The battle for the idea of Europe is about to begin. Russia - as one might expect from an espiocrac...
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Making the AIDS crisis worseMar 18, 2014 5:01 am - Some of America's closest friends in Africa have turned with a vengeance on gay people. In Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan recently approved a law making homosexual...
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The consequences of a retreating AmericaMar 11, 2014 5:01 am - With the facts on the ground now established in Crimea - several thousand facts in the form of Russian troops - the question becomes: Will sustained economic, political ...