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

Frank Sharry | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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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 11.30.2009 | Living

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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 07.04.2009 | World

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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 06.08.2009 | Politics

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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 05.14.2009 | World

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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 03.30.2009 | Politics

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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 02.20.2009 | Politics

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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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Another FDR? Not Quite

Rahm Emanuel | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

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Rahm Emanuel

Praising the president for merely attempting to clean up the mess he helped make is one thing, but comparing him to Roosevelt is quite another.

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Former White House Aides Find Pundit Life Stress Free

Washington Post | Michael Abramowitz | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media

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Four years ago this past Thursday, Michael Gerson was holed up in a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, where a teleprompter had been set u...

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Sunday Watch, 8-17-08: On Air Kisses and Free Passes

Todd Gitlin | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media

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Todd Gitlin

If pundits want to note McCain's maverick moments, fine. He's had some. But it never ceases to amaze me (call me naïve) how this flattering label circulates uncorrected.

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Oppose Bush's Vulgar Lies and Pornographic War: Send Money to Al Franken

Paul Begala | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

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Paul Begala

According to Michael Gerson, Franken has committed a sin far more egregious than Bush, who, using Gerson's words, led thousands to a certain and unnecessary death. He told some dirty jokes.

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Jason Linkins

WaPo's Gerson Tangles Obama, McCain In False Narrative

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics

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Michael Gerson begins his latest piece for the Washington Post by saying, "It is a political error for a candidate to believe that voters who agree wi...

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Jason Linkins

Bush AIDS Record Burnished At Thompson's Expense

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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An op-ed column in this morning's Washington Post savages Fred Thompson for his position on the AIDS crisis in Africa, labelling him a "callous conser...

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