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Michael Barone: Toward a Demotic Republican Party
What happens when a political party becomes demotic? Before answering the question, note that the word in question is not demonic, from the Greek...
Michael Barone: Systemic Lying Corrodes Once-great Institutions
The last six or seven months have been a couple of tough seasons for public policies based on lies. Two examples come to mind....
Michael Barone: DeSantis Withdrawal Paved the Way for Likely Trump-Biden Rematch
What went wrong with Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign? You can list many arguable mistakes, as you can with any campaign, and you can add,...
Michael Barone: No Gary Hart Bounce for DeSantis or Haley
Forty years ago, when Walter Mondale won 49% in Iowa's Democratic caucuses, far ahead of Gary Hart's 16%, the media spotlight nonetheless immediately focused....
Michael Barone: Democracy Not at Risk, but Not Operating Optimally
Is democracy at risk this election year?
Yup, is the answer given by President Joe Biden in his speech last Friday, ahead of the third...
Michael Barone: Our Inevitably Negative Politics
To explain the latest young generation's pessimism, Washington Post opinion writer Taylor Lorenz took to what was then called Twitter last February to lament...
Michael Barone: Startling Surprises in Latest Census Numbers
How's America doing? Government statisticians provide mounds of data that provide useful clues, and none more so than the Census Bureau's estimates of population,...
Michael Barone: The Politics of Incumbent Rejection
At a time when voters have rejected the party of the incumbent president in the last two elections, and in which current polling has...
Michael Barone: The Intellectual Elite’s Institutional Rot
Institutional rot. That's the verdict recorded in recent days on the performance of leading institutions by observers not known for pessimistic temperaments or alarmist...
Michael Barone: For True Evil, Look Not to Israel or America but to Communism
For those dismayed at how many college and university students and faculty, even, or especially, at selective and prestigious institutions, have been cheering Hamas'...
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Modern Liberalism: Ideology of the Welfare State, Mixed Economy (Commentary)
Modern liberalism is the ideology of the welfare state and mixed economy in the United States, based on the idea of robbing Peter to...
Complex Affordable Housing Programs Hurt People
Complex affordable housing programs hurt people they're supposed to help, whereas deregulating markets helps them. (Commentary)
by Christian Britschgi
Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition...
Illinois Senate Passes Bill Prohibiting Single-Use Plastics in Hotels
The Illinois Senate is advancing a measure to prohibit certain hotels from using single-use plastic bottles by 2026.
