Author: Michael Barone

A conservative, to paraphrase and slightly alter Irving Kristol’s saying, is a liberal who has been mugged by reality — especially by a reality that is plain to the vast …

The report of special counsel John Durham is, or ought to be, devastating for anyone who has put any credence in what has now been definitively revealed to be the …

Reports of the death of the Republican Party continue to be premature. You’ve heard the litany, often from reporters and commentators who never liked Republicans and, lately, from others who …

Lies beget lies. That’s one way to summarize nearly the past decade of presidential politics, as well as the potentially dismal presidential race underway. I leave to others commentary on …

It’s just one poll, conducted by SSRS Research for CNN, but it provides interesting evidence about where voters are on issues, and it isn’t glaringly inconsistent with other survey research. …

What do you do to win an election when your candidate is universally known and unpopular with a majority of voters? That’s a question both major parties have had to …