Latest articles by Paul Brandus
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Did JFK predict his own death?
feature He was certainly preoccupied with the possibility of assassination
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The many misconceptions of Mitt Romney's veepstakes
feature The punditocracy assumes Mitt will surely pick a No. 2 who can deliver a swing state. Don't bet on it
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Is the Iran deal Obama's 'Nixon goes to China' moment?
feature It's either a historic breakthrough, or, in the words of Israeli's wary Benjamin Netanyahu, a "historic mistake"
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Today's White House correspondents are not lapdogs
feature But in the past, they certainly have been
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How Hannity, Rove, and Romney became the liberal elite
feature In Todd Akin's world, the top GOP leaders kicking him toward the exits are actually left-wing powerbrokers trying to sabotage the conservative cause
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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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The summer of ObamaCare, avoidance, and our discontent
feature Goodbye, summer. And good riddance.
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Uncle Sam is actually good at building websites
feature Just not Healthcare.gov
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What the Chen Guangcheng debacle reveals about Obama
feature The president surely knows that protecting a threatened Chinese activist is the right thing to do. But sadly, it seems he lacks the resolve to truly follow through
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Obama's flailing and foolish attacks on the media
feature When a president starts pointing fingers at the press, you know he's in real trouble
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All you need to know about every swing state that matters
feature Forget national polls. The presidential race will be decided in a half dozen or so key swing states
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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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The payroll tax shell game
feature The ballyhooed bill delays a de facto tax hike for millions of Americans — but also undermines Social Security and the economic recovery
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The messy tax fight that will ruin Christmas
feature Obama wants tax rates and the debt ceiling to go up. Republicans want spending levels to go down. Get ready for gridlock
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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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10 years later, the Iraq war is still a failure
feature The mission, muddy as it was, remains unaccomplished
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Why Joe Biden's debate swagger matters — and why it doesn't
feature The vice president fired up the base and put Republican Paul Ryan back on his heels. But history shows that even boffo VP performances rarely move the needle
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The presidential plague of overpromising and underdelivering
feature Obama is still being stung by 2008 promises to bring the jobless rate down, and if Mitt Romney is elected, he seems poised to repeat the same mistake
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What history tells us about presidential debates
feature Imagery is all-important. Candidates will surely suck up to swing states. And the slightest slight could come to define Obama and Romney for years
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Is it too late for Obama to rescue his legacy?
feature Probably
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Americans don't really want spending cuts
feature Washington remains hyper-focused on slashing the deficit. But across the country, voters oppose even minor cuts to the federal government's largest programs
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Obama doesn't have a 'juice' problem. He has a Republican problem.
feature The president still thinks he can win over his GOP opponents. He couldn't be more wrong.
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The dam bursts on Benghazi
feature Thanks to a bombshell report from ABC News, GOP accusations that the White House politicized a tragedy no longer seem so unsubstantiated
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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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