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June 12, 2025

Michael Barone

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BARONE: United States of diversity: The founders and Dobbs

July 8, 2022 Michael Barone

DEI — “diversity, equity and inclusion.” University administrators, corporate human resources facilitators and politicians of a liberal stripe all assure us that America is now, suddenly, for the first time in history, a nation of […]

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BARONE: Can government build things again?

July 5, 2022 admin

Give the New York Times’s Ezra Klein credit for identifying a problem with big government institutions. “Our mechanisms of governance have become so risk averse that they are now running tremendous risks because of the […]

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BARONE: It’s not exactly Trump’s Republican Party

May 25, 2022 Michael Barone

Is it Donald Trump’s Republican Party? You can make the case it is, as partisan Democrats do, from the victories of various candidates endorsed by the former president in Republican primaries. But it’s not an […]

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BARONE: Progressives’ version of ‘democracy’: 2 plus 2 equals 5

May 23, 2022 Michael Barone

They may or may not have been playing the song “The World Turned Upside Down” when Lord Charles Cornwallis’s troops surrendered to Gen. George Washington at Yorktown in 1781, but there’s good reason to sing […]

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BARONE: Redistricting proved to be much ado about not very much

May 13, 2022 Michael Barone

The congressional redistricting wars are mostly over. Much of the hoopla surrounding it is proving overheated.  Before looking at this cycle’s results, a primer on the subject is in order.  The first and most important […]

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BARONE: Ukraine suggests dangers of the Eurasian Heartland Axis

March 29, 2022 Michael Barone

“Who rules the Heartland rules the World Island. Who rules the World Island commands the world.” So wrote the geography professor and occasional member of Parliament Halford Mackinder in his 1919 book “Democratic Ideals and […]

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BARONE: Ukraine shows we live in a nationalist world

March 24, 2022 Michael Barone

It turns out that we live in a nationalist world. That’s one of the lessons people are learning from the surprise early results of the Russo-Ukrainian war. This is certainly not a welcome development for […]

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BARONE: Ukraine’s fate is rooted in a tragic history

March 4, 2022 Michael Barone

For those trying to keep up with the fast-moving events in Ukraine, it may be helpful to consider some lessons of history. Mistakes made in the past week, added onto developments covering the last two […]

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BARONE: Must government be a ‘big, waddling, sluggish beast’?

March 1, 2022 Michael Barone

Itinerant policy journalist Ezra Klein, now with the New York Times, has highlighted something interesting about the Biden Democrats’ now-defunct Build Back Better package — something beyond its huge cost (trillions) and its failure to […]

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BARONE: Returning to normalcy on school masks

February 14, 2022 Michael Barone

Are we returning to normalcy?   The word “normalcy,” as history buffs know, was used — but not invented — by our only journalist president, Warren G. Harding, to sum up his 1920 campaign. Normalcy was […]

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