Michael Gerson

Does the Invisible Hand Really Know Best?

Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 04.24.2012

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Jeffrey Abelson

Is the free market really free? Or does it come at the expense of civic values we neglect at our peril? That's one of many questions I found myself pondering after reading What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel.

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Out Come The Knives: Conservative Pundits Slam Gingrich

Posted 12.12.2011

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As Newt Gingrich's surge in the polls continues, the backlash against his campaign for president has begun. Prominent conservatives like Ann Coulter, ...

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The Disappearance of the Compassionate Conservatives

Jim Wallis | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Michael Gerson, Foreign Aid, Biblical Values, Economic Justice, Pepfar, George W. Bush, Compassionate Conservatives, Republicans, Holding Space, Christian, Politics News
Jim Wallis

The compassionate conservative space is vital to the health of the nation and the future of the poor, and therefore preserving it is essential. Republicans returning to it might further open up the space for the kind of bipartisan cooperation we desperately need.

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Arianna Discusses The American Dream At The 'Opportunity Nation' Summit

Posted 11.25.2011

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On November 4th, Arianna participated in the "Opportunity Nation" Summit in New York City. Fareed Zakaria, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and o...

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Both Sides Now: On Abortion, Labor and Frontrunner Fumbles

HuffPost Radio | Posted 11.07.2011

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HuffPost Radio

2011-11-07-bothsidesnow.jpgArianna and Kellyanne Conway preview next week's ballot initiatives on abortion and labor rights in Mississippi and Ohio, respectively, and then review the GOP frontrunners' Weak Week.

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Season Opener for Reproductive Health

Carol Peasley | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Michael Gerson, Family Planning, Dr. Fred Sai, Ghana, Malawi, U.S. Congress, Cedpa, Reproductive Health, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Kwashiorkor, Women News
Carol Peasley

Let us all hope that the first falling leaves and signs of optimism emerging from FedEx Field don't encourage our lawmakers to once again make international family planning a political football.

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Sam Stein

Chris Christie 'Actively.. Considering Getting In This Race': Bush Aide

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.04.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The speculation simply won't die. On Sunday, former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson said that New Jersey Governor Chris Chris...

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"Pro-Family Planning" Republicans?

Robert Walker | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Abortion, Michael Gerson, Contraception, Family Planning, House Republicans, International-Family-Planning, Politics News
Robert Walker

While their numbers have shrunk rather dramatically, a fair number of Republicans, particularly among the rank-and-file, still care about various "liberal" causes.

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Woe to You, Legislators!

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.14.2011

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Jim Wallis

The president's fiscal message this week was on point, and will have to be repeated over and over again in the months ahead against all the pressures to compromise.

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Christians Lament "Debt Crisis," Call For "Intergenerational Justice"

Jonathan Merritt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ron Sider, Christians, Michael Gerson, Politics, National Debt, Economy, Jonathan Merritt, Justice, Evangelicals, Budget Cuts, What Would Jesus Cut, Intergenerational Justice, Christianity, Religion News
Jonathan Merritt

Biblical Justice is more than a private virtue or moral platitude. Justice is a commitment to care for those who are powerless, to speak for those who lack a voice.

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Bushwhacking Obama: Conservatives Call for "Fixing" Social Security

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert L. Borosage

Former Bush policy advisor Michael Gerson echoes a growing chorus of conservative pundits in offering up "Social Security reform" as "the answer to Obama's problems." The advice is illogical on its face.

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Interview with Bush Speechwriter Gerson on Tea Party, Religious Right, Bush Legacy

Jonathan Merritt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Merritt

Michael Gerson is something of a political anomaly. On the one hand, Gerson is a conservative Christian who served as George W. Bush's chief speechwri...

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Religious Right At A Crossroads?

Christian Science Monitor | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: City of Man, Jerry Falwell, Michael Gerson, Evangelical Christians, Religion and Politics, Religious Right, Christianity, Tea Party, Evangelicals, Books News

While marveling at the iconoclastic wit of H.L. Mencken, what many forget about the Scopes Monkey Trial is that Clarence Darrow did not sway the judge...

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The Success and the Failures of the Religious Right

Michael Gerson | Posted 05.26.2011

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Michael Gerson

The religious right has made notable achievements, but could it have done things better, and is a different model of social engagement needed for the future? We believe the answer to both questions is yes.

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Newt and Nazis: Aiding and Abetting bin Laden

Philip Smucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Philip Smucker

When Americans vilify Muslims en masse by considering them as enemies or potential enemies, al Qaeda's recruiting efforts are made easy.

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Former Bush Aides Bash GOP's New Stance On 14th Amendment As 'Offensive,' 'Embarrassment'

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former aides to the George W. Bush Administration are retaliating against a recent flurry of Republican calls for a repeal or readdressing of the 14th...

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Jason Linkins

Fourteenth Amendment Reform Prompts Strange Bedfellows In Opposition

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last week, riders on the political crazy train stopped off in Iowa to create a whole new insane plank in the Iowa GOP's official platform -- the resto...

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Why Michael Gerson Misunderstands Originalism

William P. Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011

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William P. Marshall

The answer to judicial overreaching is not adherence to a narrow form of originalism that would suggest the Constitution is incompatible with the demands of modern society. The framers themselves had more foresight than that.

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GOP: This Is Your Future Calling (and Sorry, It's Brown)

Frank Sharry | Posted 05.25.2011

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Frank Sharry

Republican politicians have been guilty of using immigrants as a wedge issue for so long that they are in real danger of sacrificing their future with Latino, minority, and swing voters.

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A New Year's Resolution

Larry Gellman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Larry Gellman

This Yom Kippur there is reason for concern. The politics of rumor, innuendo, and lies -- sinat chinam -- is on the rise in our community and it hurts us all.

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The Sachs-Moyo-Easterly Aid Debate: An Activist's Perspective

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Gerson, Foreign Aid, Jeffrey Sachs, Africa, William Easterly, ONE Campaign, Dambisa Moyo, Matt Charman, Poverty, World News
Kristi York Wooten

Go ahead and call me a misguided Westerner if you like, or even a bleeding heart; I much prefer those titles to "bystander" -- innocent or not.

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How the Right Left the Center; or Arlen Specter and the Silent Majority Revisited

Daniel Frick | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Frick

Nixon understood that the key to moving the country rightward and constructing and maintaining a Republican majority was making sure he held on to the political center.

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Everybody's Wrong But Us

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Hais and Morley Winograd

If Republicans truly want to see bipartisan policy-making, they must retreat from their position as a corporal's guard on the right wing of America and join the rest of us, seeking real solutions.

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Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows: Jesus Wouldn't Have it Any Other Way

Myrna Pérez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Myrna Pérez

The collaboration giving rise to the Poverty Forum is surely a blessed event. I hope, however, that soon it becomes an ordinary one.

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Bush Speech Writer: Obama's Address Was "Cliched"

Columbia Journalism Review | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Gerson, who authored President George W. Bush's first and second inaugural addresses, offered on Fox News this critique of President Obama's s...

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