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May 22, 2025

Michael Barone

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BARONE: Abundance versus ‘everything bagel’ liberalism

April 6, 2025 Michael Barone

“Imagine boarding a train in the center of a city,” former President Barack Obama rhapsodized in April 2009. “No racing to an airport and across a terminal, no delays, no sitting on the tarmac, no […]

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BARONE: Experts have only themselves to blame for the distrust of institutions

March 28, 2025 Michael Barone

Now they tell us. “We were badly misled about the event that changed our lives.” So reads the headline on Princeton professor Zeynep Tufekci’s March 16 article in The New York Times. The event was, […]

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BARONE: Tariffs based on tendentious history could be political malpractice

March 22, 2025 Michael Barone

Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence Freedman, describing Vladimir Putin’s rationale for invading Ukraine, calls “tendentious history”? This week, it started to […]

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BARONE: A formidable president storms ahead

March 16, 2025 Michael Barone

Some thoughts spring to mind after President Donald Trump’s 100-minute address to Congress. The first is that this 78-year-old man has amazing resilience and perseverance. Consider that in the past 12 months, he has had […]

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BARONE: The policies of European elites end in tears

March 3, 2025 Michael Barone

If you follow these things closely, you may have seen a clip of the chairman of the Munich Security Conference breaking down in tears, unable to speak any further while reflecting on Vice President JD […]

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BARONE: Trump is moving fast and breaking things

February 1, 2025 Michael Barone

Move fast and break things. That’s the original operating philosophy of Facebook founder and Meta mogul Mark Zuckerberg. It seems to be the operating procedure of President Donald Trump in these first weeks of his […]

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BARONE: Trump is succeeding while his opponents fail

January 24, 2025 Michael Barone

“It is not enough in life that one succeed,” the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. “Others must fail.” We’re at a moment when the 45th and 47th president is succeeding […]

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BARONE: The groups and barista proletariat of the Democratic Party

December 7, 2024 Michael Barone

Postmortems of the Democratic Party’s loss, running well beyond the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), are starting to come in from some of the party’s most perceptive thinkers. And […]

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BARONE: Free Speech: Why a tech titan backed Trump

December 1, 2024 Michael Barone

Why did Marc Andreessen — inventor of the first internet web browser and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today — switch from his longstanding support of the Democratic Party and back President-elect […]

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BARONE: What you didn’t hear about on election night: the other 43 states

November 15, 2024 Michael Barone

Here are some observations on what you didn’t hear on election night. Most networks’ focus was, quite properly, on whether former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris would carry enough of the 93 […]

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