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Some Rotten Underpinnings of Biden's Positive Rating
By Michael Barone
On the surface, Joe Biden seems to be doing pretty well. But underneath, there are signs of problems, areas where ...
May 07, 2021
The 2020 Census: Small Republican Gains in a Nation Hunkered Down
By Michael Barone
The COVID-delayed results of the 2020 census are finally in, with totals for the 50 states and the District of ...
April 30, 2021
The Ebbing of 'the Misperception That Bigotry Is Everywhere'
By Michael Barone
How will future historians explain this? From 2001 to 2014, majorities of Americans, including supermajorities of blacks and non-Hispanic whites, ...
April 23, 2021
Workers Don't Share Democrats' Nostalgia for Unions
By Michael Barone
It wasn't even close. The final count was 1,798 against and 738 for, 71% to 29%.The issue in question was ...
April 16, 2021
Will Joe Biden's Jim Crow Big Lie Boomerang?
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
Too Much Risk Aversion Is Too Risky
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
Can the Biden Administration Stop China?
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
What Explains Biden's Chameleonlike Transformation?
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
Biden Moves Forward With Open-Doors Immigration Policy. Why?
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
Is There Any Reason to Think This Time Will Be Different?
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
Partisan Strife Produces High Voter Turnout -- and No Big Boost for Either Party
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
Will Biden Payoff to Teachers Unions Repel Suburban Parents?
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
The Republican Party Won't Fall Apart This Time Either
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
'Mostly Peaceful' Violence and Dueling Double Standards
February 05, 2021 |
The United States of Racial Quotas and Preferences
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
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