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The Russia Collusion Hoax: Unpatriotic? May. 19, 2023

Michael Barone

The report of special counsel John Durham is, or ought to be, devastating for anyone who has put any... Read More

'Segregation' Is a Deliberate Act May. 12, 2023

Michael Barone

Getting words right can clear up a lot of confusion about politics and public policy. Example: "segr... Read More

Republicans Aren't Disappearing -- and May Even Be Growing Stronger May. 05, 2023

Michael Barone

Reports of the death of the Republican Party continue to be premature. You've heard the litany, oft... Read More

How to Stop Lies Begetting Lies Apr. 28, 2023

Michael Barone

Lies beget lies. That's one way to summarize nearly the past decade of presidential politics, as wel... Read More

Joe Biden's King Canute Environmentalism Apr. 21, 2023

Michael Barone

Are we watching a replay of King Canute commanding the waves to recede? That thought occurred to me ... Read More

A Republican Edge on Issues, but a Bigger Edge for the Party That Dumps Its 2020 Nominee Apr. 14, 2023

Michael Barone

It's just one poll, conducted by SSRS Research for CNN, but it provides interesting evidence about w... Read More

Trump Indictment Is Bad Law, Smart Politics Apr. 07, 2023

Michael Barone

What do you do to win an election when your candidate is universally known and unpopular with a majo... Read More

Will Republicans Find a Way to Get Their Way in 2024? Mar. 31, 2023

Michael Barone

Twelve or 13 months from now, the race for the Republican nomination for president — and the r... Read More

America Seems to Go Crazy Every 50 Years or So Mar. 24, 2023

Michael Barone

Amid news that Donald Trump is about to be indicted by a hyperpartisan prosecutor and of his hysteri... Read More

'Woke' Silicon Valley -- Sand Hill Road and Stanford Law -- Get Off Scot-free Mar. 17, 2023

Michael Barone

As one who has spent pleasant time on Sand Hill Road and the Stanford campus, I'm dismayed by the de... Read More

Anatomy of the Chicago Mayor's Election Mar. 10, 2023

Michael Barone

Big city elections provide clues about trends in national politics, the composition and attitudes of... Read More

Lab Leak Story: How Elite Scientists Lied and Concealed the Truth Mar. 03, 2023

Michael Barone

When the Wall Street Journal reported in a front-page lead story that the Department of Energy had c... Read More

Give Credit to Jimmy Carter Feb. 24, 2023

Michael Barone

Jimmy Carter, the 39th and the longest-living U.S. president, has chosen to enter hospice care at ag... Read More

Disinformation Inc vs. the Founding Fathers Feb. 17, 2023

Michael Barone

How many people believe, really believe, in freedom of speech? Or, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ... Read More

Will Biden's Primary Schedule Have Unintended Consequences? Feb. 10, 2023

Michael Barone

For a president who proclaimed proudly in his annual speech that his policies have made the state of... Read More

We Don't Need Racial Quotas to Showcase America's Diversity Feb. 03, 2023

Michael Barone

The ordinarily fluent and unperturbed Justice Elena Kagan seemed, judging from the transcript, to be... Read More

Are Public Employee Unions Unconstitutional? Jan. 27, 2023

Michael Barone

How did it come to pass that public employee unions, which scarcely existed 60 years ago, have come ... Read More

Time for Truth and Reconciliation on the Russia Collusion Hoax Jan. 20, 2023

Michael Barone

What are "the major problems this country faces"? Writing in The Atlantic, New York Times columnist ... Read More

What the Democratic Trifecta Hath Wrought Jan. 13, 2023

Michael Barone

America has just exited a biennium of Democratic trifecta — control by the nation's and the wo... Read More

Let's Base Policy on Real Facts, Not Misleading Statistics Jan. 06, 2023

Michael Barone

From all those lists of best books of 2022, here's one with the potential to change public policy de... Read More