Articles filed under Gerson, Michael
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The slow burn of Congo's Ebola outbreak
Aug 21, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist Michael Gerson: Meanwhile, in the semitropical vastness of eastern Congo, a killer is loose.
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The emotional resonance of 'Amazing Grace'
Aug 18, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist Michael Gerson: The concert film "Amazing Grace" accomplishes something I thought impossible -- capturing the Holy Ghost on celluloid.
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By spreading conspiracy theories, Trump undermines a belief in truth itself
Aug 13, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist Michael Gerson: President Donald Trump will do just about anything to get his daily, hypodermic fix of attention, including the spread of racist tropes and conspiracy theories.
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The return of America's cruelest passion
Aug 2, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist Michael Gerson: I had fully intended to ignore President Donald Trump's latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official, and an African American activist, and an African American journalist and a whole city with a lot of African Americans in it.
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Coats' calm competence will be missed
Jul 31, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist Michael Gerson: With the imminent departure of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats, President Trump has nearly completed his purge of independent minds.
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The contagion of rationalization
Jul 21, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist Michael Gerson: Susan Brooks. Brian Fitzpatrick. Will Hurd. Fred Upton. You may have read or heard these names in passing, but they are worth lingering upon.
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Trump never takes a vacation from provocation
Jul 17, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist Michael Gerson: Sometimes an American president is called on to be a comforter. Other times he is required to inspire. This is the American president as loud, bigoted drunk at the end of the bar, making it impossible for anyone else to talk or eat in peace.
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Trump celebrates America's victories, but not its character
Jul 10, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist Michael Gerson: The celebration of American independence is supposed to be a unifying national ritual. But we are a country with profound differences over the meaning of nationhood itself.
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Trump's endless self-regard is being exploited on the world stage
Jul 3, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist Michael Gerson: I worked for a leader who was sometimes accused of lacking in the smarts department. But no one I know who spent time with President George W. Bush was left with that impression.
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Evangelicals praise Trump at steep moral consequence
Jun 30, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist Michael Gerson: "There has never been anyone who has defended us and who has fought for us, who we have loved more than Donald J. Trump. No one!" This recent statement by religious right activist Ralph Reed is objectively true.
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