Michael Barone

Who'd a-thunk it. Mississippi seems to be leading the way in education--especially in reading and math for kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. Here's my look at the evidence and implications. https://t.co/MsuLjstFmE

European elites destroy democracy in order to save it. In my latest Washington Examiner column I argue that in Germany, France and Romania elites have taken Bertolt Brecht's advice: elect a new people. https://t.co/JuyGmvux3c

Donald Trump's executive order banning racial quotas and preferences gives America a third chance to eliminate rampant racial discrimination. Some historic perspective in my latest Washington Examiner column. https://t.co/rLgTozvVUo

I've been noticing since at least 2016 https://t.co/5P3lUXp03W the alliance of the metropole and ethnic/regional fringes versus the national heartland, in UK, US, even Colombia. Metropole in US = metro NY, DC, LA, SF, Chi.

If Trump can successfully deport people who have committed no crimes," writes Ross Barkan, "there's no telling, really, what might be next." https://t.co/Mq1I1fGMzK Huh? An intelligent writer doesn't know that otherwise non-criminal illegal immigrants can be deported legally?

Reality has a vote, and Donald Trump has been adjusting when markets nix his tariffs & threats. An occasional adjustment is good: constant adjustments risk discombobulating voters and investors. Will his fast U-turns make this April his cruelest month? https://t.co/j0NYfJyYGq

A belated appreciation of Joe Klein's common sense on the cross-border connectedness of the auto industry: "hopelessly, and happily, international." https://t.co/eEyZGr9ilV This goes back, as I've written, to 1965. https://t.co/h9HrRVuCEv

Private sector union membership keeps declining, despite Democrats' attempts to encourage it. I try to put that in historic perspective--and to contrast teacher unions' success in forcing school closures and how it's hurt disadvantaged kids. https://t.co/Y7ueZpXYKm

An excellent suggestion from Andrew Young, at age 93: let's have a memorial to the Adamses, John and Abigail, John Quincy and Louisa. https://t.co/0hCqX2z222

In light of Donald Trump's astonishing trade push and reversal, I take a look at the political history of tariffs, and at politicians'--and voters'--increasing wariness of having tariff decisions made by one arguably misguided executive. https://t.co/msND77B0M3

Am I in the tank for Donald Trump--or his opponents? Grok doesn't think so, for whatever that may be worth. https://t.co/x7Xm4aWDbc

Donald Trump seems bent on political self-harm--on tariffs and on targeting friendly countries like Canada and Denmark. So I argue in my latest Washington Examiner column. https://t.co/h9HrRVvau3

Now they tell us. Even the New York Times is running articles setting out how supposed experts lies and dissembled about the origin of Covid and how university DEI programs poison rather than soothes relations between those of different races. https://t.co/wGS8nTiTbW