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The California Dream Ends in Empty Reservoirs and Homeless Tents

The California Dream Ends in Empty Reservoirs and Homeless Tents

Many years ago, sometime after Ronald Reagan replaced Pat Brown as governor of California, I was driving up the coast from Los Angeles to San...

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Michael Barone

Can Trump Handle the World He Has Changed?

Can Trump Handle the World He Has Changed?

Ten years ago this month, Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination for president, with a platform that was vastly different on trade and...

21.05.2026 9

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Michael Barone

Can Trump handle the world he has changed?

20.05.2026 9

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Who Wins the Re-Redistricted House?

As President Donald Trump's job approval sinks to or below 40 percent (depending on which poll you're looking at), betting markets and...

14.05.2026 8

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Michael Barone

Trump's Churchillian Foreign Policy

Knowingly or not, President Donald Trump, in his decision to attack Iran, has embarked on a foreign policy that has been, on and off, both persistent...

07.05.2026 10

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Trump’s Churchillian foreign policy

06.05.2026 9

Washington Examiner

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The Young, Violent Political Left

You have to be awfully smart to believe something this stupid. In a Manhattan Institute survey of Democratic voters, 46 percent said they believed it...

30.04.2026 10

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Michael Barone

The young violent political left

29.04.2026 8

Washington Examiner

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All Redistricting Reformers Are Hypocrites

Hypocrisy was triumphant, as it usually is in arguments over redistricting, in Virginia this week, as voters approved a "fairness"...

23.04.2026 10

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All redistricting reformers are hypocrites

22.04.2026 10

Washington Examiner

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How Hungary Matters

What's the big deal about Hungary? It's a central European country with 9.5 million people — slightly less in population and area than the...

16.04.2026 10

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Michael Barone

How Hungary matters

15.04.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

39 Days: Too Much or Not Enough?

Will the U.S.-Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the 12-day Israel-Iran war of June 2025? The markets, as this...

09.04.2026 10

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Michael Barone

Thirty-nine days: Too much or not enough?

Will the U.S.–Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the Israel-Iran 12-day war of June 2025? The markets, as this...

08.04.2026 9

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

The Sudden Political Star of Trump II: Marco Rubio

"White House deploys Marco Rubio to clarify messaging about Iran conflict." So reads the headline on the front page of the Washington...

02.04.2026 10

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Michael Barone

The sudden political star of Trump II: Marco Rubio

“White House deploys Marco Rubio to clarify messaging about Iran conflict.” So reads the headline on the front page of the Washington Examiner’s...

01.04.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Where Is the Arc of Justice Headed?

Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s line that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it...

26.03.2026 10

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Michael Barone

Where is the arc of justice headed?

Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s line that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends...

25.03.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Uncertainty Remains, After 20 Days of War With Iran

Four years and 25 days. Twenty days. There's a huge difference between those two numbers. The first number — 1,486 days altogether — is the...

19.03.2026 10

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Michael Barone

Uncertainty remains, after 19 days of war in Iran

Four years and 24 days. Nineteen days. There’s a huge difference between those two numbers. The first numbers — 1,485 days altogether — is the...

18.03.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Political parties on perilous ground

As Donald Trump’s Republicans look askance as he launches what looks to some like another long-term war in the Middle East, and as the anti-Trump...

11.03.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Trump Avoiding Repeating History in Iran

History doesn't always repeat itself, or even rhyme. People sometimes learn from experience, their own or others'. Example: Woodrow Wilson,...

05.03.2026 10

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Michael Barone

Trump avoiding repeating history in Iran

History doesn’t always repeat itself, or even rhyme. People sometimes learn from experience, their own or others’. Example: President Woodrow...

04.03.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Supreme Court throws out Trump tariffs and upholds Constitution

So much for the notion that the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 majority of justices appointed by Republican presidents, was going to be a rubber stamp...

25.02.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Marco Rubio: More than just the good cop

My first reaction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech, delivered on Valentine’s Day, at the Munich Security Conference, was, “Last year,...

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Washington Examiner

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Immigration Is Shaking Up Political Parties in Britain, Europe and the US

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Will Falling Birth Rates Mean a More Conservative World?

06.02.2026 30

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Big Surprises in the 2030 Census Estimates

About a month late, presumably due to last fall’s government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50...

02.02.2026 30

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Michael Barone

Big Surprises in the 2030 Census Estimates

30.01.2026 20

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Trump’s Outrageous Threats Get Practical Results

Think about it. Heads of government do not normally reveal the texts of private communications from other heads of state. Yet that is what...

25.01.2026 20

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Michael Barone

Trump's Outrageous Threats Get Practical Results

23.01.2026 20

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What’s the Matter With Minnesota?

Minnesota? Somalis? Nine billion dollars in alleged welfare fraud? To understand what’s going on from a distance, it helps to understand basic...

20.01.2026 40

The Daily Signal

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What's the Matter With Minnesota?

16.01.2026 50

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On Immigration and Citizenship, Listen to George Washington

02.01.2026 50

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Is the GOP still the party of life? Hardly

01.01.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

On immigration and citizenship, listen to George Washington

01.01.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

In a Gloomy Winter, Read a Couple of Classic Books

27.12.2025 10

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We Have Reached the Emily Litella Moment on Climate Change

It’s been a cold winter so far in the Midwest and much of the Northeast, early-in-the-season snow even in Washington, D.C., and temperatures falling...

20.12.2025 30

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

We Have Reached the Emily Litella Moment on Climate Change

19.12.2025 50

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We have reached the Emily Litella moment on climate change 

18.12.2025 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Closing the Door on Immigration? Not Yet.

05.12.2025 20

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Michael Barone

Closing the door on immigration? Not yet

05.12.2025 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Dick Cheney: Always Unintimidated

28.11.2025 10

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Enforcing Immigration Laws Is Not the Moral Equivalent of the Holocaust

Whence cometh the conviction, in America and even more in Britain and Europe, that open borders is the only moral immigration policy? Of course,...

23.11.2025 20

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Enforcing Immigration Laws Is Not the Moral Equivalent of the Holocaust

21.11.2025 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

Enforcing immigration laws is not the moral equivalent of the Holocaust

20.11.2025 20

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

The Threat of an Overproduced Elite

14.11.2025 30

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Newsom sells out the US at latest hypocritical climate conference

13.11.2025 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

The threat of an overproduced elite

13.11.2025 20

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Bad News for Republicans, Warnings for Both Parties

Virginia and New Jersey, the two states that voted for governor in 2025, both voted for then-Vice President Kamala Harris over then-candidate Donald...

08.11.2025 20

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone