
Paul Brandus
An award-winning member of the White House press corps, Paul Brandus founded WestWingReports.com (@WestWingReport) and provides reports for media outlets around the United States and overseas. His career spans network television, Wall Street, and several years as a foreign correspondent based in Moscow, where he covered the collapse of the Soviet Union for NBC Radio and the award-winning business and economics program Marketplace. He has traveled to 53 countries on five continents and has reported from, among other places, Iraq, Chechnya, China, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Latest articles by Paul Brandus
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11 fascinating facts about America's presidents and the White House
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The White House Correspondents Dinner is terrible. I'm never going again... after this year.
opinion I just can't help myself
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Barack Obama is not Neville Chamberlain
opinion And it is willfully ignorant to suggest that he is
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The upside of American politicians being techno-phobic Luddites
opinion I, for one, salute our analog overlords
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3 myths about ObamaCare at the Supreme Court
opinion From whether ObamaCare violates the Constitution to a political upside for the GOP...
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Would America accept a president with no college degree?
opinion Scott Walker never graduated from college. He is more than qualified to be president.
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The deficit is shrinking — but it's still a huge problem
opinion We are spending way, way too much money
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Why does Wall Street hate Obama?
feature The titans of Big Finance are raking it in like never before
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You are better off than you were four years ago
feature The question isn't whether things were better in 2008. They weren't. The question is whether Obama handled an unprecedented economic crisis competently or not
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5 myths about gas prices, Big Oil, and the presidency
feature Our national discussion on uncomfortably high gas prices is filled with exaggerations and distortions. It's time we wised up
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Why you're wrong about gas prices and politics
feature Think gas station owners are raking it in? Think Republicans loathe renewable energy? Think again
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My advice to high school grads
feature For starters: Beer is really an awful thing to drink. Costs too much, tastes lousy, and makes you fat.
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What the election means for minorities, the Supreme Court, the GOP, and more
feature A look at what we can expect in Obama's four more years — and beyond
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Mitt Romney's worst week ever
feature Bain discrepancies, tax questions, NAACP booing, hanging with the Bushies — it seems like nothing is going right for the GOP presidential standard bearer
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How the ObamaCare ruling will shape U.S. politics... for the next 40 years
feature When Romney and Obama face off in November, they won't just be battling for the White House. They'll be fighting over the future of a bitterly divided court
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The Arab mess — and America's dilemma
feature The Arab world is plagued by poverty, repression, and unsustainable population growth. What's a global superpower to do?
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Romney and Obama: Two peas in a pod on Israel and Iran?
feature The Republican is eager to show Jewish voters that he'd be tougher on Iran than the Democratic president. But that may be an awfully tough sell
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5 disturbing trends you should pay attention to in 2013
feature You may think the survival of the tiny honeybee is insignificant. But as the honeybee goes, so goes humanity
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America already drove over a fiscal cliff
feature The steep tax hikes and spending cuts set to take effect at year's end pale in comparison to what the country weathered just a few years ago
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Why the GOP should embrace Obama
feature Despite conservatives insisting he's an out-of-control socialist, the president is downright Republican on many key issues
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Obama's shortsighted Syria strategy won't work
feature A long-delayed and limited strike won't oust Assad. Nor will it chasten America's enemies. So what's the point?
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Obama's NSA 'reforms' won't change anything
feature Don't be fooled: These are empty gestures, and nothing more
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Congress won't act on gun control. But Obama and the states can
feature For starters, the president can and should close the "gun show loophole"
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Who will 'win' the government shutdown?
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