Michael Barone
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By Michael Barone
They may or may not have been playing the song "The World Turned Upside Down" when Lord Charles Cornwallis's troops ...
May 13, 2022
By Michael Barone
The congressional redistricting wars are mostly over. Much of the hoopla surrounding it is proving overheated.Before looking at this cycle's ...
May 06, 2022
By Michael Barone
In recent weeks, I've noted how, as COVID-19 mask mandates fall by the wayside, the nation has been moving away ...
April 29, 2022
By Michael Barone
People talk about culture war politics as if it were a recent development -- a novelty, an exception to a ...
April 22, 2022
By Michael Barone
What were the benefits and costs of the COVID-19 restrictions implemented over the last two years? It's a good time ...
April 15, 2022
By Michael Barone
It feels like we're turning a corner.Since the beginning of the calendar year, a lot of things have changed. More ...
April 01, 2022
By Michael Barone
"The language people speak in the corridors of power is not economics or politics. It is history." So says former ...
March 25, 2022
By Michael Barone
"Who rules the Heartland rules the World Island. Who rules the World Island commands the world." So wrote the geography ...
March 18, 2022
By Michael Barone
It turns out that we live in a nationalist world. That's one of the lessons people are learning from the ...
March 11, 2022
By Michael Barone
It's been a week since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Kyiv, and even Kharkiv, 20 miles from the Russian ...
March 04, 2022
By Michael Barone
For those trying to keep up with the fast-moving events in Ukraine, it may be helpful to consider some lessons ...
February 25, 2022
By Michael Barone
Itinerant policy journalist Ezra Klein, now with the New York Times, has highlighted something interesting about the Biden Democrats' now-defunct ...
February 18, 2022
By Michael Barone
Masks were necessary, especially in schools, to prevent mass deaths. Or so we were told, at great and tedious length ...
February 11, 2022
By Michael Barone
Are we returning to normalcy?The word "normalcy," as history buffs know, was used (but not invented) by our only ...
February 04, 2022
By Michael Barone
Do Americans really want transformative change? The evidence accumulates that they don't.That is a problem for the Joe Biden ...
January 28, 2022
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