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Michael Gerson is a Washington Post opinion writer and the co-author of City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era.

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Why AIDS First?

Posted December 1, 2010 | 00:00:00 (EST)

In 2003, George W. Bush launched the largest international health initiative ever directed at a single disease: the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). According to a recent Stanford study, the program was responsible for saving the lives of more than a million Africans in just its first three...

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The Success and the Failures of the Religious Right

Posted October 12, 2010 | 10:00:47 (EST)

What has the religious right achieved?

Among its success, the religious right mustered a broad resistance to the legal establishment of secularism. Some on the left still contend that religiously motivated arguments are illegitimate in the debate over public policy. Evidently, in their conception, the separation of church and state...

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