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Michael Barone

It’s not exactly Trump’s Republican Party
05/24/2022 - 10:04pm
Michael Barone
This Week's Conservative Focus . . . Politics Is it Donald Trump’s Republican Party? You can make the case it is, as partisan Democrats do, from the victories of various candidates endorsed by the former president in Republican primaries. But it’s not an airtight case, and Trump’s batting average is inflated by the dozens of endorsements he has made of incumbents with no...
Volodymyr Zelensky transforms Germany - and Europe
Michael Barone 03/08/2022 - 12:46am
UKRAINE: March 4, 2022 It’s been a week since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Kyiv, and even Kharkiv, 20 miles from the Russian border, remain under Ukrainian control. Contrary to many predictions, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces have fallen short of their goals so far, but there can be no certainty about the outcome in...
Ukraine’s fate is rooted in a tragic history
Michael Barone 03/02/2022 - 12:11am
This Week's Conservative Focus . . . Ukraine For those trying to keep up with the fast-moving events in Ukraine, it may be helpful to consider some lessons of history. Mistakes made in the past week, added onto developments covering the last two or three centuries, have left the United States and its European allies — in particular the...
Ukraine’s fate is rooted in a tragic history
Michael Barone 02/24/2022 - 11:38pm
RUSSIA: February 25, 2022 For those trying to keep up with the fast-moving events in Ukraine, it may be helpful to consider some lessons of history. Mistakes made in the past week, added onto developments covering the last two or three centuries, have left the United States and its European allies — in particular the largest of them, Germany...
Must government be a ‘big, waddling, sluggish beast’?
Michael Barone 02/18/2022 - 9:04pm
GOVERNMENT: February 18, 2022 Itinerant policy journalist Ezra Klein, now with the New York Times, has highlighted something interesting about the Biden Democrats’ now-defunct Build Back Better package — something beyond its huge cost (trillions) and its failure to get majority support in the Democratic Congress, just like the single-...
Lamentations about redistricting ending democracy prove hypocritical - and wrong
Michael Barone 02/14/2022 - 10:32pm
REDISTRICTING: February 11, 2022 Masks were necessary, especially in schools, to prevent mass deaths. Or so we were told, at great and tedious length — until suddenly, in the last 10 days, they weren’t. THE Democratic governors of Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut and California followed the lead of the newly installed Republican...
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