Tag: Michael Barone

Perceptions of an incoming president's likely policies can shape the behavior of many; perceptions of an outgoing president's policies, not so much. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Perceptions are that Trump’s policies are working

Michael Barone · March 16, 2017 4:01 am

There has never been much written on Tocqueville's wife. (Flickr/ C Smith)

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Madame de Tocqueville

Michael Barone · March 15, 2017 11:00 am

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The Census Bureau’s dubious proposal

Michael Barone · March 14, 2017 11:22 pm

Hawaii, when it was admitted to the Union in 1959, was considered a model of racial tolerance and harmony. Now Hawaii, or at least some nontrivial number of activists supported by appeasement-minded politicians, and Guam seem to be bent on racial separatism. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

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Race-based voting overturned in Guam — after six years

Michael Barone · March 13, 2017 2:01 pm

A thoughtful essay worth reading in full by Paul Collier, economics and public policy professor at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford. (Photo Sebastian Derungs/Wikimedia Commons)

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Nationalism can be a force for the good

Michael Barone · March 10, 2017 9:22 pm

In Los Angeles, a city with a population of 3,971,883, the total number of votes in the mayoral race was only 250,188. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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What if they held an election and nobody voted?

Michael Barone · March 9, 2017 5:29 pm

America’s high-risk complacent class

Michael Barone · March 9, 2017 12:00 pm

We need legislation that increases the number of high-skill immigrants. (iStock)

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An inadvertent argument for Trump’s immigration proposal

Michael Barone · March 8, 2017 7:28 pm

Protestors against a scheduled speaking appearance by polarizing Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos fill Sproul Plaza on the University of California at Berkeley campus on Feb. 1, in Berkeley, Calif. The event was canceled out of safety concerns after protesters hurled smoke bombs, broke windows and started a bonfire. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

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Looking for fascism in America? Look left, on campus

Michael Barone · March 7, 2017 12:52 am

The Trump order specifically excluded Dreamers—illegals brought here as children—from threat of deportation. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Facts on the ground moving immigration in Trump’s direction

Michael Barone · March 3, 2017 12:00 pm

Little wonder that neither party's seers' prediction of an enduring Republican or Democratic majority have come true yet. (AP Photo/Otto Kitsinger)

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Which party is the majority party? Neither

Michael Barone · March 3, 2017 1:55 am

Since Hillary Clinton's loss, she seems determined to spend the next twenty years lamenting. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

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Third Way’s good advice for Democrats in denial

Michael Barone · February 28, 2017 8:43 pm