Opinion Archive: Michael Barone
- A Truce in Culture Wars as Voters Focus on Economy — Thursday, December 30, 2010
- Even After Shellacking, Obama Looks OK in 2012 — Monday, December 27, 2010
- Census: Fast Growth in States With No Income Tax — Thursday, December 23, 2010
- Reid and Pelosi Finally Get Mugged by Public Opinion — Monday, December 20, 2010
- Holbrooke Thought Highly of Himself, for Good Reason — Thursday, December 16, 2010
- Obama Riles Dems by Spurning New Deal Complacency — Monday, December 13, 2010
- While His Base Rages, Obama Faces Tax-cut Reality — Thursday, December 9, 2010
- For Tottering States, Bankruptcy Could Be the Answer — Monday, November 29, 2010
- In 2010 Sweep, Even the Finns Voted Republican — Thursday, November 25, 2010
- Ways to Come to Grips With American's Fiscal Mess — Monday, November 22, 2010
- The Fed's $600 Billion Bond Buy Lays an Egg Here and Abroad — Thursday, November 18, 2010
- Bush Had Ups and Downs, but the Surge Counted Most — Monday, November 15, 2010
- GOP Freshmen Will Hold Boehner to His Big Promises — Thursday, November 11, 2010
- GOP Poised to Reap Redistricting Rewards — Monday, November 8, 2010
- Voters Reject Obama's Big-Government Ambitions — Thursday, November 4, 2010
- Obama's Economists Missed What Voters Plainly Saw — Monday, November 1, 2010
- Public Employee Unions Funnel Public Money to Dems — Thursday, October 28, 2010
- Voters Fed up With Obama's Big, Bossy Government — Monday, October 25, 2010
- Tea Party Neophytes Outshine the Dems' Old Pros — Thursday, October 21, 2010
- Dems Find Careers Threatened by Obamacare Votes — Monday, October 18, 2010
- The Democratic 'D' Now Stands for Demagoguery — Friday, October 15, 2010
- Can Skinflint Mitch Daniels Win the Presidency? — Monday, October 11, 2010
- Dems Turn on Obama Over Iraq, Afghanistan, Gitmo — Thursday, October 7, 2010
- Pelosi's Vote to Adjourn Could Be Her Last Hurrah — Monday, October 4, 2010
- Dems Retreat to Coast as GOP Rules Vast Interior — Thursday, September 30, 2010
- GOP Battle Cry: Repeal Obamacare, Cut Spending — Monday, September 27, 2010
- Obama's Policies Drag Down Democratic Governors — Thursday, September 23, 2010
- Dems at War: Public Unions vs. Gentry Liberals — Monday, September 20, 2010
- When Policies Flop, Political Enthusiasm Wanes — Thursday, September 16, 2010
- Gangster Government Stifles Criticism of Obamacare — Monday, September 13, 2010
- Sinking With Obama, Democrats Plan Political Triage — Thursday, September 9, 2010
- The Higher Education Bubble: Ready to Burst? — Monday, September 6, 2010
- Down With Big Government, Big Business, Big Labor — Thursday, September 2, 2010
- Encouraging Developments From the Edges of the Anglosphere — Monday, August 30, 2010
- Redistricting Could Prolong the Democrats' Pain — Thursday, August 26, 2010
- Stimulus and Health Care Have Democrats on Defensive — Monday, August 23, 2010
- Big Government Forgets How to Build Big Projects — Thursday, August 19, 2010
- Flaws Aside, Rosty and Stevens Put Public First — Tuesday, August 17, 2010
- Obama's State Capitalism: A Failure of Modesty — Thursday, August 12, 2010
- Republicans Ask 'What Do I Do Now?' — Monday, August 9, 2010
- November Congressional Elections Could Be Replay of 1966 Midterms — Thursday, August 5, 2010
- Voters Want Super-sized Government to Crash Diet — Monday, August 2, 2010
- House Democrats Head for a Thumping at the Polls — Thursday, July 29, 2010
- Some Welcome Signs of Life From Private Sector — Monday, July 26, 2010
- Rising Speculation About Bombing Iran's Nukes — Thursday, July 22, 2010
- Dems Sour on Obama's 'Good War' in Afghanistan — Monday, July 19, 2010
- As Obama Kowtows, Unions Eye the Private Sector — Thursday, July 15, 2010
- Obama Economy Sends Americans to Their Mattresses — Monday, July 12, 2010
- Thomas' Principled Jurisprudence in Arms Case — Thursday, July 8, 2010
- Obama Plays Election-Year Politics on Immigration — Monday, July 5, 2010
- Robert Byrd's Life -- Good, Bad and All American — Thursday, July 1, 2010
- Americans Relate to Founders, Not Progressives — Monday, June 28, 2010
- Obama's Thuggery Is Useless in Fighting Spill — Monday, June 21, 2010
- Voters in Big States Prefer Skinflint Candidates — Thursday, June 17, 2010
- Big Labor Is Humbled by Blanche Lincoln's Win — Monday, June 14, 2010
- The Transformative Power of Rick Santelli's Rant — Thursday, June 10, 2010
- Obama's 'Chicago Way' Plunders the Private Sector — Thursday, June 3, 2010
- Oil Spill Tars Dems' Reputation for Competence — Monday, May 31, 2010
- Down in the Polls, Dems at War With Themselves — Thursday, May 27, 2010
- The Gathering Revolt Against Government Spending — Monday, May 24, 2010
- The Golden Age of Centrism Wasn't So Golden — Thursday, May 20, 2010
- An Obvious but Muzzled Truth: Islamist Terrorism — Monday, May 17, 2010
- Obama and Kagan Whisper in the Faculty Lounge — Thursday, May 13, 2010
- In Britain, a Cautionary Tale for U.S. Parties — Tuesday, May 11, 2010
- In Downcast Britain, a Pox on All Three Parties — Thursday, May 6, 2010
- The Left Loses Its Way by Abandoning 'Third Way' — Monday, May 3, 2010
- After Policy Stumbles, Obama Turns to Politics — Thursday, April 29, 2010
- Hold the VAT -- Taxpayers May Prefer Spending Cuts — Monday, April 26, 2010
- Gangster Government Becomes a Long-Running Series — Thursday, April 22, 2010
- Tea Partiers Fight Obama's Culture of Dependence — Monday, April 19, 2010
- GOP Should Push Tough Regulation of Wall Street — Thursday, April 15, 2010
- Obamacare Will Be at Center of High Court Hearing — Monday, April 12, 2010
- Losing the Stomach for Humanitarian Interventions — Thursday, April 8, 2010
- Under Obama, a Diminished Sense of Opportunity — Monday, April 5, 2010
- Tea Partiers Embrace Liberty, Not Big Government — Thursday, April 1, 2010
- Obama Slights Our Friends, Kowtows to Our Enemies — Monday, March 29, 2010
- Bond Markets Reflect the True Cost of Obamacare — Thursday, March 25, 2010
- Health Plan Means Bigger Deficits and Higher Taxes — Monday, March 22, 2010
- What's Good for House Leaders Is Bad for Members — Thursday, March 18, 2010
- Tea Party Brings Energy, Change and Tumult to GOP — Monday, March 15, 2010
- Dems Are Stuck With a Mess of Their Own Making — Thursday, March 11, 2010
- Low-Tax Texas Beats Big-Government California — Tuesday, March 9, 2010
- Will Senate Say Aloha to Racial Discrimination? — Thursday, March 4, 2010
- Dems' Health Strategy Doesn't Add Up to a Win — Monday, March 1, 2010
- Obama's Nanny Care Insults the American Spirit — Thursday, February 25, 2010
- Obama Lacks One Crucial Ingredient -- Intuition — Monday, February 22, 2010
- With Dems Sinking, GOP Better Come up With a Plan — Thursday, February 18, 2010
- Under Obama, Crony Capitalism Again Rules the Day — Monday, February 15, 2010
- With Absolute Power, Team Obama Grows Stupid — Thursday, February 11, 2010
- Public-sector Unions Bleed Taxpayers to Help Dems — Monday, February 8, 2010
- How Climate-Change Fanatics Corrupted Science — Thursday, February 4, 2010
- Obama Impresses 'Educated Class' but Not Terrorists — Monday, February 1, 2010
- Dems Fall as Fast as Nixon Republicans in 1974 — Thursday, January 28, 2010
- Voters Spurn the 'Boob Bait' of the Educated Class — Monday, January 25, 2010
- Little Guy Sends Message to Washington: Drop Dead — Thursday, January 21, 2010
- Dems' Lock on Senate Is Mixed Blessing for Obama — Monday, January 18, 2010
- Obama's Rapturous Style Versus Tea Party Substance — Thursday, January 14, 2010
- Imagine Waugh Writing About the Christmas Bomber — Monday, January 11, 2010
- Can Cocksure Obama Change Course -- and Keep His Nerve? — Thursday, January 7, 2010
- GOP Should Push Education and Pro-Family Tax Reform — Monday, January 4, 2010
About Michael Barone
Michael Barone is a senior writer with U.S. News & World Report. He grew up in Detroit and Birmingham, Michigan. He graduated from Harvard College (1966) and Yale Law School (1969), and was an editor of the Harvard Crimson and the Yale Law Journal.
Barone served as law clerk to Judge Wade H. McCree Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1969 to 1971. From 1974 to 1981, he was vice president of the polling firm of Peter D. Hart Research Associates. From 1981 to 1988, he was a member of the editorial page staff of The Washington Post. From 1996 to 1998, he was senior staff editor at Reader's Digest.
Barone is the principal co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, published by National Journal every two years. The first edition appeared in 1971, and the 17th edition, The Almanac of American Politics 2004, appeared in July 2003. He is also the author of Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (Free Press, 1990), The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again (Regnery, 2001) and Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Competition for the Nation's Future (Crown Forum, May 2004).
Over the years, Barone has written for many publications, including The Economist, The New York Times, The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, National Review, The American Spectator, American Enterprise, The Times Literary Supplement and The Daily Telegraph of London. He is a contributor to the Fox News Channel and has appeared on many other television programs.
Barone lives in Washington, D.C. He has traveled to all 50 states and all 435 congressional districts. He has also traveled to 37 foreign countries and has reported on elections in Russia, Mexico, Italy and Britain.
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