Michael Barone

BARONE: Who wins the re-redistricted House?

May 23, 2026 Michael Barone

As President Donald Trump’s job approval sinks to below 40% (depending on which poll you’re looking at), betting markets and political conventional wisdom are that his Republican Party is not necessarily doomed to lose its […]

BARONE: The young, violent political left

May 8, 2026 Michael Barone

You have to be awfully smart to believe something this stupid. In a Manhattan Institute survey of Democratic voters, 46% said they believed it was definitely or probably true that “the assassination attempt against Donald […]

BARONE: 39 days: Too much or not enough?

April 17, 2026 Michael Barone

Will the U.S.-Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the 12-day Israel-Iran war of June 2025? The markets, as this is written, seem to think so. Asian stock […]

BARONE: The sudden political star of Trump II: Marco Rubio

April 11, 2026 Michael Barone

“White House deploys Marco Rubio to clarify messaging about Iran conflict.” So reads the headline on the front page of the Washington Examiner’s website in the early hours of April 1, the third month of […]

BARONE: Where is the arc of justice headed?

April 3, 2026 Michael Barone

Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s line that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Of course, what was an expression of […]

BARONE: Uncertainty remains after 20 days of war with Iran

March 27, 2026 Michael Barone

Four years and 25 days. Twenty days. There’s a huge difference between those two numbers. The first number — 1,486 days altogether — is the length of time since Russian troops crossed the Ukraine border […]

BARONE: Trump avoiding repeating history in Iran

March 13, 2026 Michael Barone

History doesn’t always repeat itself, or even rhyme. People sometimes learn from experience, their own or others’. Example: Woodrow Wilson, a stubborn Southerner, refused to involve any Republicans, all Northerners in those days, in treaty […]

BARONE: Supreme Court throws out Trump tariffs and upholds Constitution

March 6, 2026 Michael Barone

So much for the notion that the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 majority of justices appointed by Republican presidents, was going to be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump. That is a frequently voiced charge […]

BARONE: Marco Rubio — more than just the good cop

February 28, 2026 Michael Barone

My first reaction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech, delivered on Valentine’s Day, at the Munich Security Conference, was, “Last year, President Donald Trump sent the bad cop, Vice President JD Vance. This year, […]

BARONE: Immigration is shaking up political parties in Britain, Europe and the US

February 20, 2026 Michael Barone

As British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces calls to resign for his appointment of Epstein-tied Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, one is struck by the sudden instability of British governments. In the […]

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