Democrats look increasingly like the party of the past

Who would have thought "hope and change" meant Industrial Age big government for the...

Michael Barone September 5, 2014

The President who is uninterested in other people

The world is an endless gallery of mirrors for Barack Obama.

Michael Barone September 2, 2014

Obama's segue from constructive tax proposals to low-grade demagoguery

The president lacks either the inclination or the skills to negotiate, or both.

Michael Barone August 29, 2014

A decent lawyer should tell liberals they're damned fools and ought to stop

Today it seems that many liberal "would-be clients" are in desperate need of "a decent lawyer."

Michael Barone August 26, 2014

Not nearly as daunting as the 1960s riots

As bad as the Ferguson riots have become, they haven't come anywhere near the cataclysmic unrest of an...

Michael Barone August 22, 2014

Hillary Clinton not campaigning much for her party in 2014, unlike Richard Nixon in 1966

Clinton is apparently afraid she can't match Nixon's record.

Michael Barone August 19, 2014

Three hundred years later, Americans owe a debt to King George I

As we lament the effects of the Great War that broke out 100 years ago, let's remember gratefully what...

Michael Barone August 12, 2014

Primaries show Republican voters wary of Tea party candidates, skeptical of party establishment

They are also more open to questioning incumbents.

Michael Barone August 8, 2014

Big government worked better in the Industrial Age

Not so much in digital era.

Michael Barone August 5, 2014

Bipartisanship is alive and well, but not in the Obama White House

The real problem is at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Michael Barone August 1, 2014

Fighting parasitic bureaucracies and crony capitalism

We need an "indeterminate, unpolitical, but highly sensitive miscellany of men."

Michael Barone July 29, 2014

Obama Democrats lose their big bet on health exchanges

The Obama Democrats have expanded government, and have also provided a basis for limiting it in the future.

Michael Barone July 25, 2014

Obama dragged down by chaos at home and abroad, not by the economy

The president's responses so far have confirmed voters' sense that the nation and the world are in disarray.

Michael Barone July 22, 2014

How Obama is turning liberalism into an instrument of coercion

It's not just the language that's changed.

Michael Barone July 18, 2014