Michael Gerson
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The author of nightmaresJan 30, 2012 4:00 am - DUNGU, Democratic Republic of the Congo — Francoise, age 16, talks quietly, revealing a shy smile only after praise for her tight cornrows. While walking to school four ...
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Better living through wonkeryJan 22, 2012 11:00 pm - It is an achievement of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements to have raised large issues of economic freedom and economic inequality. It is a paradox that thei...
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Gingrich: The party of oneJan 17, 2012 4:00 am - A fifth-place finish in New Hampshire is not usually the slingshot into a two-way race for the Republican nomination, but Newt Gingrich can reasonably make the case. Th...
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Romney’s improbable achievementJan 13, 2012 4:00 am - It is commonly argued that Mitt Romney has benefited from a weak Republican field, which is true. And that the attacks of his opponents have been late and diffuse. True,...
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Ron Paul’s poison pillJan 05, 2012 4:00 am - Let us count the ways in which the nomination of Ron Paul would be groundbreaking for the GOP. No other recent candidate hailing from the party of Lincoln has accused L...
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Europe’s irrepressible conflictDec 28, 2011 4:00 am - Oh, how I love humanity, With love so pure and pringlish, And how I hate the horrid French, Who never will be English! #8212; G.K. Chesterton Under ...
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The case for wonderDec 25, 2011 5:08 am - The God particle — really the Higgs boson — still resists confirmation, though scientists at the Large Hadron Collider recently reported “tantalizing hints” of its exist...
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Gingrich’s war on ShariahDec 20, 2011 5:00 am - The epochs of Newt Gingrich’s public life are defined by the books that have revolutionized him — generally of the type that sell well at airports. There is Isaac Asimov...
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The strange buoyancy of Barack ObamaDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - In a season of curious political phenomena — Michele Bachmann’s unnerving stare, Herman Cain’s last-minute launch of “Women for Cain,” a planned debate hosted by a reali...
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The shattering of EuropeDec 07, 2011 7:00 am - It is said in Europe that only one politician now stands between President Obama and re-election: Angela Merkel. This may overstate Obama’s electoral strength, but it ap...