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August 16, 2025

Articles by Michael Barone

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BARONE: A fail-safe society is sure to fail

April 18, 2024 Michael Barone

When are we going to trust our fellow Americans again? When are we going to allow qualified individuals with responsibility to make decisions without consulting detailed rulebooks and formal procedures? Those are questions New York […]

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BARONE: Disorder on the border remains a problem for Biden Democrats

April 11, 2024 Michael Barone

What were they thinking? Did President Joe Biden and the folks who put together his immigration policy imagine the voting public would celebrate policies that resulted in a record-high number of migration encounters — more […]

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BARONE: The surge of populism — and nationalism 

September 30, 2023 Michael Barone

“Populist politicians and parties,” writes the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Henry Olsen in The Spectator, are “rapidly gaining strength and power across the developed world.” They’re doing so despite the opposition and angry scorn […]

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BARONE: The downward spiral of disgraceful misconduct 

December 17, 2022 Michael Barone

When John Quincy Adams was informed by a committee that he was elected president by the House of Representatives, for the first and only time through the procedure set by the 12th Amendment of the […]

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BARONE: Trump and Biden big losers, DeSantis big winner in 2022 

November 18, 2022 Michael Barone

One way to look at this election is as a repudiation of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.  Democrats held 235 seats in the House in 2018 as Biden launched his campaign for president. To the […]

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BARONE: Fundamentals, from COVID to crime, favor Republicans 

October 29, 2022 Michael Barone

If Democrats take a drubbing in the off-year elections — and it seems increasingly likely, but not certain, that they will — it will be because they lost their moorings when the country seemed to […]

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BARONE: In ‘systemically racist’ America, lots of whites vote for blacks

September 1, 2022 Michael Barone

It was just a mini headline nationally on primary night this month, but one with some national implications and historic resonance. The city of Detroit, 77% of whose residents are black, according to the 2020 […]

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BARONE: Hillary Clinton should apologize for the biggest political hoax since Titus Oates

September 30, 2021 Michael Barone

It’s the biggest political hoax since Titus Oates’s allegations of a “Popish Plot” to assassinate King Charles II in 1678. Oates’s charge of a Jesuit conspiracy swept through London and led to the execution of […]

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BARONE: California voters get what they deserve

September 25, 2021 Michael Barone

The nation’s largest state has just voted in an election triggered by one of the nation’s weirdest recall processes, and the results have come out just about where they’ve been before. California Gov. Gavin Newsom […]

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BARONE: The feminization of America: what will it look like?

September 19, 2021 Michael Barone

Are we witnessing the feminization of America? And if so, is that a good or bad thing, or is it, like so many quiet but ineluctable trends, a combination of the two? Perceptions of feminization […]

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