Michael Barone is a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute. A political analyst, historian, and journalist, Mr. Barone is a longtime observer of the American political system and its campaigns, elections, and demographic trends.

Mr. Barone is concurrently a senior contributing author of the Almanac of American Politics, which he coauthored from the first edition in 1972 to 2016. He is also a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner.

In addition to his regular columns, Mr. Barone is the author or coauthor of multiple books, including How America’s Political Parties Change (and How They Don’t) (Encounter Books, 2019); Shaping Our Nation: How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics (Crown Forum, 2013); and Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers (Crown Forum, 2008). His latest book, Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders (Encounter Books), will be published on November 28, 2023.

Mr. Barone is the recipient of many prizes and awards, among them the Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association and the Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. He has visited all 435 US congressional districts and 54 foreign countries.

He holds a law degree from Yale Law School and an AB from Harvard University.

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