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Democrats Try to Brush Aside 'Woke 1'

Democrats Try to Brush Aside 'Woke 1'

"'Woke 1' was crazy." So said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on ABC News' "This Week" earlier this month. ...

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Michael Barone

Democrats try to brush aside Woke 1

Democrats try to brush aside Woke 1

“Woke 1 was crazy.” So said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on ABC News’s This Week earlier this month.  She said she was quoting New York...

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Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Socialists Shove the Resistance Aside in Florida

Socialists Shove the Resistance Aside in Florida

The most surprising result in the batch of primaries held this week over the vast stretch of America from Florida through Wyoming to Alaska was the...

20.08.2026 9

Townhall

Michael Barone

Socialists shove the Resistance aside in Florida

Socialists shove the Resistance aside in Florida

The most surprising result in the batch of primaries held this week over the vast stretch of America from Florida through Wyoming to Alaska was the...

19.08.2026 8

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Midwest Shows DSA Left Could Take Over the Democrat Party

It's worth poking around the entrails of the returns for the agonizingly close and, given the pre-primary polls, surprising results of recent...

13.08.2026 8

Townhall

Michael Barone

Midwest shows DSA Left could take over the Democratic Party

It’s worth poking around the entrails of the returns for the agonizingly close — and, given pre-primary polls results — surprising results of...

12.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

The Long Rise of the New Democratic Party

Can I claim to have predicted, way back in 1988, the result of Michigan's fiercely contested Democratic primary for U.S. senator this week? The...

06.08.2026 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

The long rise of the new Democratic Party

Can I claim to have predicted, way back in 1988, the result of Michigan’s fiercely contested Democratic primary for U.S. senator this week? ...

05.08.2026 9

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

America’s peak socialism — abandoned a century ago

The emergence of the Democratic Socialists of America and their political victories, from New York City across the fruited plains of Michigan and...

29.07.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Ukrainian War Remakes War

Wars remake war. New weaponry, new tactics, and new strategy time and again produce results no one predicted or thought possible. Revolutionary...

23.07.2026 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

Lindsey Graham, Politician and Churchillian

Still boyish, energetic, and enthusiastic, Lindsey Graham died suddenly last weekend at the age of 71. Once upon a time, death at such an age was not...

16.07.2026 10

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Michael Barone

Dropping Candidates Is Getting to Be a Habit — and It's Not a Sign of Strength

It's beginning to be a habit. It, in this case, is the messy business of center-left political jettisoning one leader suddenly deemed unelectable...

09.07.2026 10

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Michael Barone

America's Multicultural Miracle

The welcoming reception that so many European soccer fans have received as they have crossed the nation in pursuit of World Cup games has struck many...

02.07.2026 10

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Michael Barone

The Background That Made the Revolution Possible

As we inch toward the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, let me share a couple of reflections on the background of...

25.06.2026 20

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Michael Barone

The background that made the Revolution possible

24.06.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Gordon Wood and the Historians Who Told the Real Story of the Founders

The sudden death of the historian Gordon Wood, just weeks before the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is one...

11.06.2026 10

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Michael Barone

Gordon Wood and the historians who told the real story of the founders

10.06.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Which Party Will Recover First From Its Current Self-Harm?

Tuesday saw the usual first-week-of-June gaggle of state primary elections. It's a feature of the American federal system that states choose when...

04.06.2026 20

Townhall

Michael Barone

Which party will recover first from its current self-harm?

04.06.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

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...

28.05.2026 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

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 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

Can Trump handle the world he has changed?

20.05.2026 20

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 20

Townhall

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 20

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Michael Barone

Trump’s Churchillian foreign policy

06.05.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

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 20

Townhall

Michael Barone

The young violent political left

29.04.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

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 20

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Michael Barone

All redistricting reformers are hypocrites

22.04.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

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 20

Townhall

Michael Barone

How Hungary matters

15.04.2026 20

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 20

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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 20

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 20

Townhall

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...

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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 20

Townhall

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 20

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 30

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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 20

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 20

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 30

Townhall

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 30

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 40

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

Michael Barone

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?

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Michael Barone

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 40

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Big Surprises in the 2030 Census Estimates

30.01.2026 30

Townhall

Michael Barone

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 30

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Trump's Outrageous Threats Get Practical Results

23.01.2026 30

Townhall

Michael Barone