Michael Gerson
Washington Post
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Michael Gerson: Saying goodbye to my child, the youngster
Michael Gerson died Thursday at 58. For 15 years beginning in 2007, he wrote a twice-weekly column for The Post — including this beautiful meditation from 2013. → Read More
‘Gaffes’ aside, I once assumed GOP goodwill on race. I was wrong.
In MAGA world, racist incitement isn’t a mistake — it's a strategy. And it reopens a wound that nearly killed the patient before. → Read More
Why Anthony Fauci is the greatest public servant I have known
Attacks from GOP ideologues can’t dent Fauci’s legacy of pursuing and achieving public health goals that few believed were possible. → Read More
Covid eroded other crucial global health efforts. The world must act.
In developing countries, progress against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis has declined. For wealthy nations, correcting this reversal is a moral duty. → Read More
Trump should fill Christians with rage. How come he doesn’t?
The MAGA faithful’s resentments, malevolence and violence are a form of moral ruin. So why have so many American evangelicals signed on? → Read More
Was the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago justified? Only the documents know.
A benign violation of the Presidential Records Act would not justify the search. But if legally damaging material is found, that’s another story. → Read More
The answer to Trumpism: A centrist bloc. The question: How to build it?
To succeed, liberals will need to strike the right tone to rally the country to democracy’s defense. → Read More
Why I will never live without a dog again
For most of my life I lived in dogless ignorance and would have mocked sentiments about intense cross-species friendships. How wrong I was. → Read More
Abortion deserves a sober debate. Instead, it gets a war of unreason.
Right and left are both guilty of poisoning our politics on the issue of abortion. → Read More
Eric Greitens’s ‘RINO hunting’ ad shows the radicalization pipeline in the GOP
A Greitens win would further sunder character from politics. → Read More
The mission from which Pope Francis should never retire
Dismissing Francis as a liberal fundamentally misunderstands politics and faith. → Read More
How the gay rights movement found such stunning success
This is a battle in the culture war that was never fully joined. → Read More
History will accept only one Jan. 6 narrative. This committee has it.
In some ways, pressing the case against Donald Trump is not hard, because he confirms its general outlines. → Read More
The GOP spin on gun rights is wrong — morally and legally
A main pro-gun argument represents a willful misreading of the Constitution and comes freighted with new danger in the age of MAGA. → Read More
Why should Americans care about the Queen? Her history is ours.
The ultimate source of affinity between Americans and their British cousins is historical, rooted in the English Reformation. → Read More
After Uvalde, I pray with the grieving — and for bold action on guns
Gun violence is a public policy problem demanding originality, daring and perseverance. Legislators should be watched and judged. → Read More
The report on Southern Baptist abuses is a portrait of brutal misogyny
When pastors believe the importance of their mission justifies the coverup of sexual abuses, they cross the line into heresy. → Read More
How covid complacency and ideology killed 1 million Americans
After 1 million covid deaths, it must be asked: Is the United States prepared for any crisis requiring communal action? → Read More
GOP leaders ought to banish officials who embrace ‘replacement theory’
And Fox News should fire the smiling, public faces of the racist ideology invoked by the Buffalo shooter. → Read More
Bill Gates’s new pandemic book presents a plea and a plan
Another potentially catastrophic contagion is inevitable. “How to Prevent the Next Pandemic” offers proposals for mobilizing against it. → Read More