Tag: Michael Barone

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May on April 18 called for the general election in London. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

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The four most important things you didn’t realize about the UK election

Michael Barone · June 12, 2017 6:02 pm

The Conservative campaign featured Theresa May in capital letters and Conservatives in minuscule type. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

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Barone: Breaking down Theresa May’s disastrous night

Michael Barone · June 9, 2017 3:19 pm

One of the reasons that college has lost its value is the active suppression of opposing viewpoints, which was on full display in the riots to bar Ann Coulter from Berkeley. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP)

Is college worth it? Increasing numbers say no

Michael Barone · June 8, 2017 4:01 am

Trump did carry the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, which by government definition includes Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Washington and Westmoreland Counties. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Donald Trump actually did carry (metro) Pittsburgh

Michael Barone · June 4, 2017 7:45 pm

That's a conclusion to which Connecticut's Democratic Governor Daniel Malloy has uncomfortably arrived, after noticing that his previous tax increases have caused the geese who have been laying the golden eggs have been taking wing and flying off to no-state-income-tax Florida. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

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Affluent Democrats nix radical redistribution

Michael Barone · June 1, 2017 7:37 pm

Charitably minded observers may excuse both these individuals, neither of whom expected twelve months ago to be in places and positions they are today. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Michael Barone: Let’s stop acting like the 2016 campaign is still on

Michael Barone · June 1, 2017 4:01 am

Zuckerberg, like so many members of the global-minded elite, seems to regard nationalism as somehow akin to Nazism, always and invariably vicious. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Mark Zuckerberg’s crusade against nationalism

Michael Barone · May 30, 2017 6:45 pm

President Trump dismissed the investigation into his administration's possible collusion with Russia as a "witch hunt." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Abroad, Trump acts like a competent, conventional president

Michael Barone · May 25, 2017 4:01 am

In this Oct. 30, 2001, file photo, members of the U.S. Marine Corps' Chemical-Biological Incident Response Force demonstrate anthrax clean-up techniques during a news conference in on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Kenneth Lambert, File)

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Remember the botched anthrax investigation

Michael Barone · May 22, 2017 7:24 pm

Trump has foresworn any cuts in Social Security or Medicare entitlements. May has promised to cap utility bills and to target tax cuts toward low earners. So much for the policy thrusts of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The demotic politics of Theresa May — and Donald Trump

Michael Barone · May 18, 2017 4:01 am

In this Wednesday, May 3, 2017, photo then-FBI Director James Comey pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. President Donald Trump abruptly fired Comey on May 9, ousting the nation's top law enforcement official in the midst of an investigation into whether Trump's campaign had ties to Russia's election meddling.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

James Comey: Latest victim of the Clintons

Michael Barone · May 11, 2017 4:01 am

French Marine le Pen delivers a speech, Sunday in Paris after losing the election to Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

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Marine Le Pen fails to carry French countryside

Michael Barone · May 8, 2017 12:39 pm