Michael Gerson
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Gates’ rogue memoirJan 20, 2014 8:57 am - Some autobiographies emerge from careful reflection, others from career calculation. Robert Gates’ “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War” seems the result of a good, long...
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The coming test for ChristieJan 15, 2014 4:00 am - There is something inherently absurd about a political scandal resulting from an event that could also have been caused by a stray deer and a truck filled with watermelo...
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For a new fight against povertyJan 12, 2014 4:00 am - Assessing the outcome of the War on Poverty — announced 50 years ago — has always been complicated by the hopes it initially inspired. After his election in 1964, Lyndon...
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A yellow light for governmentJan 08, 2014 4:00 am - One of the main problems with an unremittingly hostile view of government — held by many associated with the Tea Party, libertarianism and “constitutionalism” — is that ...
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The war on Mideast ChristiansJan 05, 2014 4:00 am - In some parts of the world, Herod’s massacre of the innocents is a living tradition. On Christmas Day in Iraq, 37 people were killed in bomb attacks in Christian distric...
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The power of ChristmasDec 23, 2013 4:38 pm - ’Tis the season for crèche display controversies and public school decoration debates and First Amendment argumentation, when all the ideologues get a little extra outra...
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Breakthrough in AIDS researchDec 23, 2013 9:11 am - In 1987, two young medical researchers, Anthony Fauci and Cliff Lane, conducted the first clinical trial of an AIDS vaccine. They took the envelope that surrounds the vi...
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The exhausted political classDec 22, 2013 4:00 am - The bipartisan budget deal was a welcome exception to congressional gridlock. It was not, unfortunately, an indication that gridlock has been broken in any lasting or fu...
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The Central African Republic needs our helpDec 17, 2013 4:00 am - Rwanda’s ethnic conflict was a quarrel in a faraway country between people of which we know nothing — until it became a byword for moral abdication in the face of genoci...
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The gospel according to JCPenneyDec 12, 2013 4:00 am - One of the unpleasant side effects of modern medicine — experienced during a recent convalescence — is the omnipresence of television. Its controls are built into your h...