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Michael Gerson / Politics

Government's Heavy Hand

WASHINGTON -- So, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has investigated the IRS investigation of conservative groups. And the FBI has launched a criminal investigation of the IRS. And the State Department's Office of Inspector ...

The IRS Needs an Audit

WASHINGTON -- Suppose that the Environmental Protection Agency were to admit offhandedly that the fluoridation of water had only modest communist mind-control effects. Or the United Nations were to concede it has been running fleets of black ...

The Fog on Benghazi

WASHINGTON -- In some cases, the fog of war is initially thick, then dissipates. Following the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, the facts were initially clear. The fog was a ...

God's Side

WASHINGTON -- The Rev. Jim Wallis is a man of the left -- perhaps the defining figure of the evangelical left. So it is not surprising that I should find some of the policy views expressed in his new book, "On God's Side," badly mistaken. But this...

The Stakes of Being Too Late

WASHINGTON -- On Syria, President Obama has sometimes seemed isolated within his own administration. As the atrocities have escalated -- from the shelling of neighborhoods, to airstrikes on bread lines, to the use of Scud missiles against ...

For GOP, Obstruction's Risk

WASHINGTON -- Since Franklin Roosevelt busted the curve, presidents have generally tried to avoid the 100-day measure of their effectiveness. But as President Obama's second term reaches this milestone, his legislative yield is particularly paltry...