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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: Donald Trump: Energy in the executive

October 10, 2025 Michael Barone

Whatever else you want to say about him, President Donald Trump has what Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 70 called “energy in the executive” — announcing a peace plan for Israel and Hamas, ordering the […]

TUCKER: Quadrennial reflections

January 31, 2025 Garland S. Tucker III

American presidential elections come up every four years with monotonous regularity. It’s an integral part of our constitutional republic. Despite times of war, peace, economic turbulence, euphoric prosperity or whatever, we faithfully elect (or reelect) […]

GINGRICH: President-elect Trump: The de facto president

December 20, 2024 Newt Gingrich

It is clear Donald J. Trump will be a remarkable second-term president. His courage and endurance over the last nine years have already made him a historic figure — even before he made the greatest […]

TUCKER: A prophet without honor

April 5, 2024 Garland Tucker

The familiar words of Jesus, “A prophet is not without honor save in his own country,” have been applied to many political situations down through the centuries. Perhaps no such application was more apt than […]