Michael Gerson
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Liberalism’s shrinking agendaOct 19, 2012 5:00 am - In its heyday — say, the 1960s — American liberalism had an obvious identity. It was ambitious, reformist and frankly moral in its appeal to a common good that included ...
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At war with no leaderOct 15, 2012 5:00 am - The beginning of congressional hearings on the Benghazi debacle revealed an administration with much to explain and perhaps something to hide. At a minimum, the State D...
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Romney: Still dominating the debateOct 10, 2012 5:00 am - Mitt Romney’s debate message has become his campaign strategy. In Denver, he was a bipartisan dealmaker, concerned about the lives of real people, especially when they i...
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Going for exceptionalOct 04, 2012 12:23 pm - One large, strategic question at the center of the presidential race: In order to beat President Obama, does Mitt Romney need to be an exceptional candidate or merely an...
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Still leaving our kids behindOct 01, 2012 5:00 am - The new movie “Won’t Back Down” is to public education what Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” was to the meatpacking industry — a needed spotlight, but not for the squeamish...
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Missing an openingSep 26, 2012 5:00 am - This presidential race is not over. Mitt Romney remains close in most swing states, though durable polling deficits in Ohio and Virginia are enough to trouble even the ...
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Mouthing nonsenseSep 21, 2012 5:00 am - The velocity and compression of the news cycle -- along with the manic, serial certainty of those who inhabit it -- have become discrediting. It took just hours for a ge...
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Standing up for teachersSep 19, 2012 5:00 am - Teachers are heroes, not villains, and it’s time to stop demonizing them. It has become fashionable to blame all of society’s manifold sins and wickedness on “teachers u...
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Different speeches, similar philosophySep 13, 2012 5:00 am - During a presidential election in which both campaigns seem mainly intent on turning out their most ideologically typical voters — through the endless application of con...
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Obama fails, revealinglySep 09, 2012 5:00 am - In his 2008 convention speech, Barack Obama’s main challenge was rhetorical — to frame and summarize a historical moment in which the choosing of a president could at le...