PostPartisan Archive: Gerson

Ruth Marcus going rogue

My normally mild-mannered colleague Ruth Marcus has gone rogue about my recent column on Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other Sept. 11 conspirators in Manhattan. She makes a number of sincere but flimsy arguments that...

The Democrats get lashed

The most pathetic moment of Creigh Deeds’s sad campaign came toward the end, with a gauzy commercial invoking last year’s Obama campaign, featuring the tag line, “We can do it again.” Jon Corzine ran similar ads in the Obama...

Obama's Nobel for Good Intentions

Apparently, they now give out a Nobel Peace Prize for good intentions. Unless I have missed something, President Obama has not yet achieved a nuclear free world -- which was also, by the way, Ronald Reagan's good intention. He...

The Problem With Cable News

I’m attending a conference today – “First Draft of History,” sponsored by the Atlantic, the Aspen Institute and the Newseum – at which David Gregory interviewed John McCain. When asked about the decline of civility and bipartisanship in Washington,...

Klein Drowns in the Ethical Shallows

On Friday, Post blogger Ezra Klein took a short break from Barack Obama’s unpaid policy staff to respond to my last column and dismiss the importance of bigotry and hatred on the Internet. “That doesn’t describe the Internet I...

All About Obama

I’ve refrained from commenting on President Obama’s address to the United Nations General Assembly because the speech made me angry. And most postings -- or letters, or e-mails -- written while angry are better discarded or deleted. But this...

Older Entries in This Category »

How a Democrat Loses in Virginia, Stephen Stromberg , September 25, 2009

A Reasoned Response to Glenn Beck, Marisa Katz , September 21, 2009

Obama's Speech Was Nothing New, Stephen Stromberg , September 10, 2009

What About 9/11?, Autumn Brewington , September 1, 2009

Obama's Juvenile Use of Power, Marisa Katz , July 24, 2009

The Meaning of Sotomayor's Retreat, Marisa Katz , July 16, 2009

PBS's New Ban on Religious Programming, Stephen Stromberg , June 18, 2009

First Thoughts on Sotomayor, Marisa Katz , May 26, 2009

The Contradiction in Obama's Speech, Marisa Katz , May 22, 2009

A Strong Economics Speech, Marisa Katz , February 24, 2009

Obama's First Month, Marisa Katz , February 20, 2009

Obama Gives a Great Speech, Marisa Katz , February 13, 2009

The Town Hall Debate: Two McCain Successes, Marisa Katz , October 7, 2008

The VP Debate: A Victory -- of Sorts, Autumn Brewington , October 2, 2008

Palin's Heroic Choice, Held Up as a Bad Example, Marisa Katz , September 12, 2008

Obama's Down, But Not Out, Marisa Katz , September 12, 2008

When Less Is Less, Marisa Katz , September 5, 2008

A Typical Middle-Class Struggle, Marisa Katz , September 1, 2008

Team McCain Takes the Lead, Autumn Brewington , August 31, 2008

Casey vs. Casey, Autumn Brewington , August 27, 2008

More Notes From Last Night, Autumn Brewington , August 27, 2008

Not Much of an Endorsement, Autumn Brewington , August 27, 2008

Different Praise for Ted Kennedy, Marisa Katz , August 25, 2008

Change v. Convention, Michael Gerson , August 24, 2008