Michael Barone

The poll showed Clinton's advantage over Donald Trump slightly exceeded the poll's 3.7-percentage-point margin of error, meaning the race in the Garden State is nearly as close as can be. (AP Photos)

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Trump is sinking in the polls, but Clinton isn’t rising

Michael Barone · June 15, 2016 5:09 pm

It’s a crucial development that could tip the scales in the race for the White House. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Possible errors in exit polls suggest more election year surprises ahead

Michael Barone · June 12, 2016 4:03 am

Shrinking-age work forces mean lagging economic production — and lagging state tax revenues. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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What if governments run out of people to tax or draft?

Michael Barone · June 9, 2016 8:34 pm

Bernie Sanders can claim credit for moving the Democratic party closer to his own political creed, socialism, than any Democrat has cared or dared to do before. (AP Photo)

Bernie Sanders wins, even while losing

Michael Barone · June 9, 2016 4:01 am

Austin Bay's first column takes on Katie Couric's intentionally dishonest Yahoo TV documentary on guns. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

Austin Bay takes on media and government liars

Michael Barone · June 7, 2016 9:47 pm

Why can't the New York Times get simple facts right? (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Beltway Confidential

The New York Times gets the facts wrong — again

Michael Barone · June 6, 2016 12:05 pm

With negative ratings above 60 percent, Donald Trump is the only Republican candidate Hillary Clinton easily defeats, according to available polls. (AP Photos)

Neither candidate is getting the immigration issue right

Michael Barone · June 5, 2016 4:03 am

The geniuses of the tech world are not very good at resolving contradictions between their goals. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Beltway Confidential

The childish politics of Silicon Valley

Michael Barone · June 2, 2016 5:38 pm

Old issues have been replaced by a different kind of barking or braying: angry rhetoric, nostalgia for imagined pasts and litanies of laughably unrealistic policies. (AP Photo)

The dogs that didn’t bark in 2016

Michael Barone · June 1, 2016 9:24 pm

Harvard University Professor Larry Summers said, "It seems plausible to wonder if government can build a nation abroad, fight social decay, [...] run health insurance exchanges, or set proper sexual harassment policies on college campuses, if it can't even fix a 232-foot bridge competently." (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

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Take it from Larry Summers: Gummit ain’t workin’ good

Michael Barone · May 30, 2016 2:18 pm

Kotkin shows how cities developed as religious, imperial, commercial and industrial centers. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Michael Barone: Cities should have room for everyone

Michael Barone · May 29, 2016 9:00 pm

The Pew Research Center reports that for the first time in the modern era more 18-34 year olds are living with their parents rather than spouses or partners. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Yes, more young Americans really are living with parents rather than spouses

Michael Barone · May 26, 2016 7:41 pm