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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JFK's murder was not a conspiracy
feature It's been nearly 50 years. It's time to face facts.
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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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What if John McCain had won the 2008 election?
feature It's tempting to imagine "what could have been." But the maverick would have faced many of the same challenges Obama has struggled with.
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Once again, Washington fails
feature Surprise! With the sequester, our lawmakers have once again manufactured a totally unnecessary and very harmful crisis
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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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The GOP's stunning hypocrisy
feature Conservatives seem almost eager to deny food and health care to the neediest Americans
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Who will 'win' the government shutdown?
feature Here we go again...
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Ronald Reagan would demand more gun control
feature The GOP hero fought the NRA, and won. It's time for more Republicans to follow his example
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The GOP has turned its back on Reagan and Lincoln
feature Republican heroes of yesteryear would be personas non grata in today's increasingly radical party
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Obama is not weak on terrorism
feature And conservative critics who say he is are proving they have very-short, very-partisan memories
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We're halfway through 2013. How are things going?
feature Assessing the state of our union through statistics
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Edward Snowden: Traitor and hero?
feature It seems counterintuitive, but the NSA secret-spiller might be both
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Nearly all Americans think of themselves as patriots
feature And they're right
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The summer of ObamaCare, avoidance, and our discontent
feature Goodbye, summer. And good riddance.
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Obama's maddening failure on gun control
feature On Boston, Obama rightly stayed on the sidelines. On gun control, that same strategy proved foolhardy
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The lessons of Boston
feature Monday's tragic bombings were undeniably a terrorist attack. Now, let's learn from our post-9/11 mistakes
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How the U.S. should deal with North Korea
feature Ambiguity has no place here; clarity, conviction, and a stealth bomber or two — that's the way to go
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President Obama: Flounderer-in-chief?
feature This is not a president who is in command of events. Events are in command of him.
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Remembering 9/11: How safe are we today?
feature Your chance of dying in a terrorist attack is infinitesimal. And yet, many of us remain quite worried.
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Washington's gun debate: What's next?
feature Despite the NRA's fierce opposition to gun control, Obama has an opening
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Obama's State of the Union speeches, past and present
feature Washington has changed the president — not the other way around
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10 years later, the Iraq war is still a failure
feature The mission, muddy as it was, remains unaccomplished
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How Obama blew it on the sequester — and how he's fixing it
feature The swiftest cure for arrogance is a drop in the polls
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Yes, Republicans can impeach President Obama
feature But it would be a boneheaded move for numerous reasons
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