Michael Barone
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By Michael Barone
The big lie works -- until it doesn't.The big lie in this case is Joe Biden's charge that the changes ...
April 09, 2021
By Michael Barone
"This is not politics," President Joe Biden said last week. "Reinstate the mandate if you let it down." Give him ...
April 02, 2021
By Michael Barone
The acrid atmosphere last week at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska, with its vivid murals of the 18th-century ...
March 26, 2021
By Michael Barone
How to explain Joe Biden's ideological transformation over the years? Perhaps it's the same as the explanation of why the ...
March 19, 2021
By Michael Barone
"BIDEN," say the young demonstrators' T-shirts, imitating his campaign logo, "PLEASE LET US IN!" The picture ran in The New ...
March 12, 2021
By Michael Barone
When public policies have produced disastrous results, and when alternative policies have resulted in immediate, seemingly miraculous improvement, why would ...
March 05, 2021
By Michael Barone
The last decade has seen a boom in voter turnout -- for both parties. Between the 2012 and 2020 presidential ...
February 26, 2021
By Michael Barone
You expect a certain number of stumbles from a new administration. President Joe Biden's incoming team professed dismay at having ...
February 19, 2021
By Michael Barone
When you've been consuming and producing political commentary for many years, you get used to certain recurring themes. One is ...
February 12, 2021
February 05, 2021 |
By Michael Barone
On Tuesday, six days into Joe Biden's administration, it became clear why Susan Rice, hitherto a foreign policy specialist, was ...
January 29, 2021
By Michael Barone
"We must end this uncivil war," Joe Biden proclaimed shortly after he became the 46th president on Wednesday. Hours earlier, ...
January 22, 2021
By Michael Barone
It wasn't just Donald Trump's detractors who felt a sudden sense of relief when they heard that Twitter was blocking ...
January 15, 2021
By Michael Barone
The policies of defeated one-term presidents are not as easily reversed as their victorious successors, suffused with campaign rhetoric, sometimes ...
January 08, 2021
By Michael Barone
Did America go crazy in 2020? I suspect observers years hence will think so because of the responses, of both ...
January 01, 2021
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