Michael Gerson
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Evangelicals falsely believe they have found a champion in TrumpJan 06, 2019 12:00 am - By all indications, the reluctant support by white evangelicals for Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton in 2016 has solidified into something like devotion. In his ana...
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Trump's wall is a symbol of ruinJan 02, 2019 12:00 am - Republicans used to shut down the federal government with the intention (generally) of curbing public spending. Donald Trump's GOP, in contrast, shuts down the federal g...
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Michael Gerson: Caring about the lives of prisoners benefits society as a wholeDec 21, 2018 12:00 am - Cleveland has written the latest chapter in the unfolding scandal of the American criminal justice system. A report by the U.S. Marshals Service details a series of fai...
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Michael Gerson: We need a revival of humanismDec 18, 2018 12:00 am - By Michael Gerson FLORENCE - A tourist in Florentine museums is like a skipping stone above unfathomable depths. Here a Botticelli. There a Donatello. A single room at t...
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Pathogens couldn't care less about Italian politicsDec 12, 2018 12:00 am - FLORENCE, Italy - It was here in 1614 that Tommaso Caccini preached a sermon in the church of Santa Maria Novella denouncing Galileo and other scientists who held the he...
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Bush's life proves that sometimes things go gloriously rightDec 05, 2018 12:00 am - All the talk about the attributes of this or that generation is usually overblown. But there is an exception when a cohort of young Americans shares a massive, overwhelm...
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Trump has an unethical inner circle because he wants unethical jobs doneNov 30, 2018 12:00 am - President Donald Trump recently tweeted: "Did you ever see an investigation more in search of a crime?" It is usually a bad idea to raise a rhetorical question when the...
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Our awful political moment's historical forgetfulnessNov 20, 2018 12:00 am - One of the worst things about our awful political moment is its historical forgetfulness. Many Europeans seem to have forgotten where chauvinistic nationalism and the de...
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Will a GOP candidate stand up against Trump in 2020?Nov 16, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Republicans who are thinking about opposing President Donald Trump in the 2020 primaries are facing the hardest of political choices. Toppling a sitting pr...
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Are we sincere about second chances?Nov 13, 2018 12:00 am - Those of us who participated in the 2000 presidential election are getting political PTSD from the current gubernatorial and senatorial recounts in Florida. President Ge...