Michael Gerson
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Trump's foreign policy smashes our defining idealsJul 25, 2018 1:00 am - Setting aside the issue of whether the president is wittingly advancing the interests of a hostile power - a qualification that is only imaginable in the Trump era - wha...
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Gerson: Kavanaugh would stand against executive bullyingJul 15, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is not known for its consistency, but some contradictions are too revealing to ignore. In nominating Brett Kavanaugh to the Suprem...
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Offenders should still be treated with humanityJul 08, 2018 1:00 am - An administration not known for policy creativity is unlikely to have useful internal policy debates. But in the Trump administration, prison reform is a welcome excepti...
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The moral implications of the GOP's Trumpian turnJul 05, 2018 1:00 am - With President Donald Trump's forthcoming nomination of a Supreme Court justice likely to rally and unify the Republican coalition, some commentators are (again) declari...
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Kennedy's retirement offers Trump a path to uniting his partyJun 29, 2018 1:00 am - Luck - pure, dumb luck - is an underestimated advantage in politics, and Donald Trump is one lucky man. He ran for the Republican nomination against a fractured field, i...
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Trump's tests of loyalty are really tests of characterJun 26, 2018 1:00 am - Donald Trump's mentor, the colorful controversialist Roy Cohn, once said: "I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves." If this ...
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Gerson: Religious leaders finally exert resistance to TrumpismJun 24, 2018 1:00 am - On the issue of child separation, President Donald Trump had to be dragged kicking and screaming into basic humanity. His initial goal was to create terror in migrants w...
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Trump administration defends border cruelty with heresyJun 19, 2018 1:00 am - Logic not being the strong point of the Trump administration, it claims that it is not to blame for the separation of families at the border, and that a just God is plea...
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G-7 debacle proves Trump is operating on a different mapJun 12, 2018 1:00 am - BERLIN - It is strange being in a foreign country and watching American post-World War II leadership - as practiced by presidents such as Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower...
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Columnist Gerson: The pending danger of a memory-foam speaker conforming to shape of TrumpJun 06, 2018 1:00 am - On the evidence of Rep. Kevin McCarthy's CNN interview over the weekend, the likely next speaker of the House is a mindless sycophant and a threat to the constitutional ...