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Michael Barone: America’s Dysfunctional Overclass
What does America's overclass think of the rest of us? The short answer is "not much." They think ordinary people's splurging on natural resources...
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...
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Men Are Leading the Way in Skipping Four-Year Degrees, Raising More Doubts About Value...
Record numbers of youth are skipping college and entering the workforce directly, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The trend...
Companies Are Slashing Away at Debt as Surging Inflation Casts Shadow Over Interest Rate...
Many companies are looking to cut down on their debts as recent high inflation reports have made borrowing more expensive as the prospect of...
Betsy McCaughey: Trusting China in Inviting Another Pandemic
It's one thing to die from natural causes. Worse, to die from a disease leaked by Chinese scientists in a lab and allowed to...
