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A turning point for American foreign policy?

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Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Maybe Larger Families Will Produce Better Leaders, as in the Early US

Why was America in the Revolutionary War era, with 3 million people, able to generate leaders of the quality of Benjamin Franklin and George...

19.04.2024 9

Townhall

Michael Barone

Disorder on the Border Remains a Problem for Biden Democrats

What were they thinking? Did President Joe Biden and the folks who put together his immigration policy imagine the voting public would celebrate...

05.04.2024 5

Townhall

Michael Barone

Wisconsin delivers a victory for election integrity

03.04.2024 2

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Disorder on the border remains a problem for Biden Democrats

03.04.2024 2

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

California’s $20 minimum wage is killing thousands of jobs

27.03.2024 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Today’s leaders are not living up to constitutional norms

27.03.2024 5

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

The Electric Car Fiasco

Donald Trump's anodyne if overexcited comment that the U.S. auto industry would face a "bloodbath" if he's not elected and doesn't impose 50% or 100%...

22.03.2024 40

Townhall

Michael Barone

Democrats Losing Their Hold on California and California Losing Its Hold on America

Last week's Super Tuesday results ensured the renominations of former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, barring some unanticipated...

15.03.2024 5

Townhall

Michael Barone

Are Voters Recoiling Against Disorder?

The headlines coming out of the Super Tuesday primaries have got it right. Barring cataclysmic changes, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be the...

08.03.2024 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

Are voters recoiling against disorder?

07.03.2024 2

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Some Idiosyncratic Observations of the Elections So Far

Herewith some idiosyncratic, perhaps eccentric, observations on the electoral contests so far in this presidential cycle. 1. Turnout is down. In the...

01.03.2024 4

Townhall

Michael Barone

Biden Open-Door Policy: Some Facts and Historical Context

What's been missing these past couple of months from the coverage of and debate over the failed immigration bill? Some important basic facts and lots...

23.02.2024 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

Biden open-door policy: Some facts and historical context

21.02.2024 1

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

America's Dysfunctional Overclass

What does America's overclass think of the rest of us? The short answer is "not much." They think ordinary people's splurging on natural resources is...

16.02.2024 6

Townhall

Michael Barone

Toward a Demotic Republican Party

What happens when a political party becomes demotic? Before answering the question, note that the word in question is not demonic, from the Greek word...

09.02.2024 3

Townhall

Michael Barone

Toward a demotic Republican Party

08.02.2024 7

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Systemic Lying Corrodes Once-Great Institutions

The last six or seven months have been a couple of tough seasons for public policies based on lies. Two examples come to mind. One is the...

02.02.2024 6

Townhall

Michael Barone

Repel the enemy at the gates

01.02.2024 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Systemic lying corrodes once-great institutions

01.02.2024 30

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

No Gary Hart Bounce for DeSantis or Haley

Forty years ago, when Walter Mondale won 49% in Iowa's Democratic caucuses, far ahead of Gary Hart's 16%, the media spotlight nonetheless immediately...

19.01.2024 6

Townhall

Michael Barone

No Gary Hart bounce for DeSantis or Haley

16.01.2024 2

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Democracy not at risk, but not operating optimally

10.01.2024 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Our inevitably negative politics

To explain the latest young generation’s pessimism, Washington Post opinion writer Taylor Lorenz took to what was then called Twitter last February...

04.01.2024 4

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Startling Surprises in Latest Census Numbers

How's America doing? Government statisticians provide mounds of data that provide useful clues, and none more so than the Census Bureau's estimates of...

29.12.2023 4

Townhall

Michael Barone

Startling surprises in latest Census numbers

How’s America doing? Government statisticians provide mounds of data that provide useful clues, and none more so than the Census Bureau’s...

27.12.2023 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

The Politics of Incumbent Rejection

At a time when voters have rejected the party of the incumbent president in the last two elections, and in which current polling has the incumbent...

22.12.2023 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

The politics of incumbent rejection

At a time when voters have rejected the party of the incumbent president in the last two elections, and in which current polling has the incumbent...

20.12.2023 5

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

The Intellectual Elite's Institutional Rot

Institutional rot. That's the verdict recorded in recent days on the performance of leading institutions by observers not known for pessimistic...

15.12.2023 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

The intellectual elite's institutional rot

Institutional rot. That’s the verdict recorded in recent days on the performance of leading institutions by observers not known for pessimistic...

13.12.2023 7

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

For True Evil, Look Not to Israel or America but to Communism

For those dismayed at how many college and university students and faculty, even, or especially, at selective and prestigious institutions, have been...

08.12.2023 3

Townhall

Michael Barone

For true evil, look not to Israel or America but to communism

For those dismayed at how many college and university students and faculty, even, or especially, at selective and prestigious institutions, have been...

07.12.2023 2

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Orwell and Monroe Got It Right

George Orwell, call your office. That's my initial and slightly out-of-date response to news stories about the Biden administration's efforts to stamp...

01.12.2023 3

Townhall

Michael Barone

Orwell and Monroe got it right

George Orwell, call your office. That’s my initial and slightly out-of-date response to news stories about the Biden administration’s efforts to...

30.11.2023 20

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Charles Peters RIP — a footnote

Charlie Peters, who died yesterday on Thanksgiving at age 96, left many people with much to thank him for, not least the many writers who, as young...

25.11.2023 4

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Give Thanks to the Founders

There's plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season -- at least if you take your eyes off a presidential race in which most voters want to...

23.11.2023 20

Townhall

Michael Barone

Give thanks to the founders

There’s plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season — at least if you take your eyes off a presidential race in which most voters want to...

21.11.2023 6

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Memo to Hamas: Settler Societies Aren't Evil

In the nauseating demonstrations celebrating Hamas' slaughter of Israelis, one hears repeated, again and again, the refrain that Israelis are...

17.11.2023 3

Townhall

Michael Barone

Memo to Hamas: Settler societies aren't evil

In the nauseating demonstrations celebrating Hamas’s slaughter of Israelis, one hears repeated, again and again, the refrain that Israelis are...

15.11.2023 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Young Voters Spring (Contradictory) Political Surprises

What's with young voters? It's a question prompted by two surprising and perhaps contradictory developments that are out of line with conventional...

10.11.2023 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

Young voters spring (contradictory) political surprises

What’s with young voters? It’s a question prompted by two surprising and perhaps contradictory developments that are out of line with conventional...

08.11.2023 1

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Young voters spring (contradictory) political surprises

What’s with young voters? It’s a question prompted by two surprising and perhaps contradictory developments that are out of line with conventional...

08.11.2023 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Is a Trump Renomination Really Inevitable?

Is it inevitable that Donald Trump will be the second person in history -- Richard Nixon was the first -- to win the Republican Party's nomination for...

03.11.2023 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

Is a Trump renomination really inevitable?

Is it inevitable that Donald Trump will be the second person in history — Richard Nixon was the first — to win the Republican Party’s nomination...

02.11.2023 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Can a New Speaker Reinstate an Old Norm?

After a little more than three weeks, House Republicans have finally elected a speaker. He's Mike Johnson, first elected to the House in 2016 from a...

27.10.2023 5

Townhall

Michael Barone

Can a new speaker reinstate an old norm?

After a little more than three weeks, House Republicans have finally elected a speaker. He’s Mike Johnson, first elected to the House in 2016 from a...

26.10.2023 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Time to Stop Appeasing Terrorist Iran

The 2020s are starting to look like the 1930s, as I wrote last week in the wake of Hamas' unprecedentedly vicious attack on Israel. Nations that...

20.10.2023 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

Time to stop appeasing terrorist Iran

The 2020s are starting to look like the 1930s, as I wrote last week in the wake of Hamas’s unprecedentedly vicious attack on Israel. Nations that...

18.10.2023 2

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

The Gathering Storm

Russia has been attacking Ukraine for 20 months now. Iran, through its terrorism partner Hamas, attacked Israel this weekend. China has been...

13.10.2023 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

The gathering storm

Russia has been attacking Ukraine for 20 months now. Iran, through its terrorism partner Hamas, attacked Israel this weekend. China has been...

11.10.2023 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

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