Michael Gerson
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Vacuums of sovereigntyFeb 04, 2013 4:00 am - Break out your pith helmet, wax your mustache and raise a toast at the club: The French have liberated Tombouctou. It seems like the headline from the age of imperialis...
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Obama’s test on immigrationFeb 01, 2013 4:00 am - President Barack Obama has grown testy about reporters who have a “default position” that policy debates have two sides. “On almost every issue,” he recently told The Ne...
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Bonfire of the straw menJan 23, 2013 4:00 pm - A young reporter who has only covered President Obama’s first term has already witnessed several political epochs. Obama’s election was a symbol of reconciliation in Am...
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Daniels: The one who got awayJan 18, 2013 4:00 am - Just before noon on Jan. 14, Mitch Daniels ceased to be governor of Indiana. By 2 p.m. he was in West Lafayette conducting a meeting as the soon-to-be president of Purdu...
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On crying at the moviesJan 14, 2013 4:00 am - Following the “Les Miserables” incident on Christmas Day, I suspect I will never convince my teenage sons to attend a movie with me again. At various moments of high emo...
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The politics of protecting the middle classJan 08, 2013 4:00 am - Defeat is usually an orphan. This one had many proud fathers. In the “fiscal cliff” agreement, President Barack Obama secured his vanishingly narrow electoral mandate t...
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When healers are the targetsDec 27, 2012 4:00 am - The murder of eight polio vaccination workers during 48 hours in Pakistan has all the hallmarks of a Taliban operation: coordinated, ruthless and monstrous. The attacks ...
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Step 1: Declare we will not accept thisDec 20, 2012 4:00 am - The intercom had been switched on. “At first we heard a bunch of kids scream,” said a therapist at Sandy Hook Elementary School, “and then it was just quiet and all you ...
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Dispelling the second-term bluesDec 16, 2012 4:00 am - A president’s first term is a fresh track in the snow. His second term moves on a set of rutted paths. The shiny cause has become a vast machine, its wheels spinning on ...
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The awkward conversationDec 12, 2012 4:00 am - In order for an ambitious budget deal to emerge, an awkward conversation must take place. House Speaker John Boehner needs to tell President Obama: “I can give some on r...