Michael Gerson
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Outside Syria, difficult adjustmentsAug 29, 2013 5:00 am - ZAATRI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan — I ask a Syrian refugee named Isra why her 8-year-old boy isn’t attending the camp school. “He doesn’t like school,” she explains. At home i...
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A parent letting goAug 25, 2013 5:00 am - Eventually, the cosmologists assure us, our sun and all suns will consume their fuel, violently explode and then become cold and dark. Matter itself will evaporate into ...
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Move forward on malaria vaccineAug 21, 2013 5:00 am - When approached with the concept for producing the PfSPZ malaria vaccine, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, thought i...
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America’s bubble of complacencyAug 12, 2013 9:34 am - The impending replacement of the chairman of the Federal Reserve has taken on elements of a political campaign, with members of Congress endorsing candidates and financi...
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Will GOP faction rescue fading Obamacare?Aug 04, 2013 5:00 am - At its birth, the Affordable Care Act already seems gray, wheezing and gouty. For all its expressions of confidence, the Obama administration has been unable to implemen...
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Boehner set right tone on immigrationJul 31, 2013 5:00 am - The tone of the immigration debate has recently taken a sharp downward turn, which may not be a bad thing for immigration reform’s legislative prospects. Rep. Steve Kin...
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When sex mattersJul 28, 2013 5:00 am - While political sex scandals can be disturbing, outrage at sex scandals can also be irritating. When news of the Profumo affair broke in 1963, Lord Hailsham vented that...
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Political sex scandals and the public’s judgmentJul 28, 2013 5:00 am - While political sex scandals can be disturbing, outrage at sex scandals can also be irritating. When news of the Profumo affair broke in 1963, Lord Hailsham vented that ...
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Obama’s necessary, uncreative speechJul 22, 2013 12:50 pm - Eight American presidents owned slaves while living in the White House. President Zachary Taylor pledged that his fellow slave-owners would “appeal to the sword if neces...
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In Israel, no silver liningsJul 17, 2013 5:00 am - THE GOLAN HEIGHTS — The abandoned Circassian village of Zureiman provides a vantage point across the fortified Israeli border into Syria. Regime forces hold an area from...