Michael Gerson: In the fight against AIDS/HIV, there is defiance and success
"Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky." Albert Camus, "The Plague"
View ArticleMichael Gerson: Romney's choice for VP shows he's a leader
It is the recurring temptation of self-confident, insular elites to assume that that whole country loves what they love, hates what they hate and believes what they believe. "The American people are...
View ArticleMichael Gerson: 2012 election is polarized to a draw
The 2012 presidential election raises two seemingly contradictory questions: First, given a stagnant economy and a sour public mood, why isn't Mitt Romney doing better?
View ArticleMichael Gerson: U.S. policy adrift in Middle East
During his campaign and the early part of his administration, Barack Obama offered a theory about the disorders of the greater Middle East.
View ArticleMichael Gerson: What Petraeus achieved will outlive scandal
The Petraeus affair like some Ethics 101 thought experiment is an exceptionally difficult test case in determining the proper relationship between personal ethics and public trust. When should you...
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Michael Gerson: Catholic vote will remain pivotal for both parties in future...
The Catholic Church a politically and ethnically sprawling institution has no natural home on the American ideological spectrum.
View ArticleMichael Gerson: Republicans' task is to make capitalism work for everyone
It is a particularly bad election when a party's principal source of confidence is also its main form of self-deception.
View ArticleMichael Gerson: On fiscal cliff, Obama must lay foundation for 'the...
In order for an ambitious budget deal to emerge, an awkward conversation must take place. House Speaker John Boehner needs to tell President Barack Obama: "I can give some on rates for the wealthy, but...
View ArticleMichael Gerson: In aftermath of unthinkable, we are not a helpless nation
The intercom had been switched on. "At first we heard a bunch of kids scream," said a therapist at Sandy Hook Elementary School, "and then it was just quiet and all you could hear was the shooting."
View ArticleMichael Gerson: Grief is difficult at Christmas, but there are reasons for joy
This is a Christmas season shadowed by sorrow. We know, of course, that human beings, even small ones, sometimes die in horrible, unfair ways. But all the horror and unfairness seemed to arrive at once...
View ArticleMichael Gerson: Shedding a few tears over 'Les Mis,' sacrifice, suffering
Following the "Les Miserables" incident on Christmas Day, I suspect I will never persuade my teenage sons to attend a movie with me again.
View ArticleMichael Gerson: GOP's best politician is stepping back from the political stage
Just before noon on Jan. 14, Mitch Daniels ceased to be governor of Indiana. By 2 p.m. he was in West Lafayette conducting a meeting as the soon-to-be president of Purdue University. A true Hoosier...
View ArticleMichael Gerson: Obama draws hard line for those who oppose his agenda
A young reporter who has only covered President Barack Obama's first term has already witnessed several political epochs.
View ArticleMichael Gerson: Will Obama use immigration plan as divisive weapon?
President Barack Obama has grown testy about reporters who have a "default position" that policy debates have two sides.
View ArticleMichael Gerson: Change in contraceptive mandate amounts to a policy shell game
The Obama administration's latest revision of its contraceptive policy was welcomed by some religious people as a breakthrough, even a "miracle." Upon reflection, it seems less like the parting of the...
View ArticleMichael Gerson: Words from a single State of the Union saved millions of lives
Even among the few odd, nerdy children who want to be speechwriters when they grow up (I was one), none dream of writing a State of the Union address. These tend to be long and shapeless affairs, lumpy...
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Michael Gerson: Koop realized public health is the realm of likely behavior
Out of Mississippi, a milestone in the AIDS pandemic, or at least proof of concept: If you treat an infant early enough in this case, within 30 hours of infection it is possible to prevent a...
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Michael Gerson: Rand Paul ignores real war on terror with drone sideshow
Since arriving in the Senate in 2011, Rand Paul has been probing here and there for issues of populist resonance. Michael Gerson
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