Michael Barone: Biography and Latest Articles

Biography

Michael Barone is senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and resident fellow at American Enterprise Institute. To find out more about Michael Barone, and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

Articles

Adolescents Need Constraints, Not Indulgence

By Michael Barone

"Letting adolescents have their way." That's one way to describe two public policies, advocated vociferously by woke liberals, opposed surely ...

June 11, 2021

Facebook's Speech Suppression Argues for Repeal of Section 230 and a Facebook Stock Price of Zero

By Michael Barone

"A lot of people have egg on their face" for dismissing the COVID-19 lab leak theory, tweeted ABC News ' ...

June 04, 2021

Reform Prosecutors May Hang on, but National Democrats May Not

By Michael Barone

This week's Democratic primary election for Philadelphia district attorney could presage outcomes in the 2022 and 2024 elections, but not ...

May 21, 2021

British Labour's Problems Could Hurt Democrats, Too

By Michael Barone

Five years ago next month, British voters, in the largest turnout ever, voted to leave the European Union by a ...

May 14, 2021

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