Michael Gerson
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Making one distortion from anotherDec 01, 2011 4:00 am - Mitt Romney’s tough, controversial first television ad — directed at President Obama, not Romney’s primary opponents — could be a preview of the fall election. It also r...
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Obama’s shrug to the supercommitteeNov 22, 2011 4:00 am - Budget deals get done because presidents prod, plead, cajole, demand and threaten. A few phone calls and tepid public statements do not count. It is the executive, not t...
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Obama’s Catholic strategy in shamblesNov 17, 2011 4:00 am - In 2009, Notre Dame University set off months of intra-Catholic controversy by inviting a champion of abortion rights to deliver its commencement address. When the day a...
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Putting AIDS on the road to extinctionNov 14, 2011 4:00 am - After 30 years and 30 million funerals, the end of the global AIDS epidemic is suddenly, unexpectedly, within sight. It would be a final victory for this clever killer i...
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Less equality, more mobilityNov 08, 2011 4:00 am - It is the primary liberal argument that America’s primary economic problem is growing income inequality. For three decades, in this view, the rich have grown richer whi...
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Ethnic politics will do GOP no goodNov 02, 2011 5:00 am - What is it about the immigration issue that brings out the worst in politicians? Neither Mitt Romney nor Rick Perry has a history of being an immigration hard-liner. Ro...
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Assessing Iowa’s Republican quicksilver voteOct 26, 2011 5:00 am - DES MOINES — At Herman Cain’s Iowa headquarters, state director Larry Tuel proudly holds up a $63 check received by the campaign that morning. The wealthy give in large,...
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The president’s partisan makeoverOct 19, 2011 5:00 am - It is an irony, but not a coincidence, that Barack Obama’s postpartisan era has seen the rise of the tea party movement and Occupy Wall Street. Certainly, the momentum ...
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Tea partyers for RomneyOct 14, 2011 5:00 am - CHARLESTON, S.C. - The treasurer of this state, Curtis Loftis, describes himself as “tea party 35 years ago.” Even in the context of South Carolina politics, he is regar...
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The frustrations of an old bullOct 10, 2011 5:00 am - When a member of Congress seeks an opportunity to harm his or her career on a matter of conscience, it is worth noting. Rep. Frank Wolf’s recent floor speech attacking G...