
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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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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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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Edward Snowden: Traitor and hero?
feature It seems counterintuitive, but the NSA secret-spiller might be both
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How much privacy will you trade for security?
feature They are both important. But they don't always coexist nicely
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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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The GOP's stunning hypocrisy
feature Conservatives seem almost eager to deny food and health care to the neediest Americans
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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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Why Cantor's upset is bad news for Obama
feature If you think Barack Obama has trouble dealing with House Republicans now, you haven't seen anything yet
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Why U.S. presidents are powerless to stop the Russians
feature To understand Obama's dilemma, you really have to understand Vladimir Putin's psyche
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Deconstructing the 5 most ridiculous myths about Barack Obama
feature The 44th president has long been the target of misinformation, smear campaigns, and outright, bald-faced lies
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Reflections from the Secret Service agent who leaped onto JFK's car
feature "I think about it every day," says retired Secret Service agent Clint Hill. "It never goes away."
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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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5 things to be encouraged about in 2014
feature It's not all bad
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How gun-rights advocates benefit from Obama's presidency
feature Gun lobbyists say Obama will dismantle the right to bear arms if he's re-elected, failing to note that the past four years have been great for their industry
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A forecast for divided government in 2013
feature Predictions on how the 2012 election will shake out — dealing victories and blows to Democrats and the GOP alike
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Be thankful for messy politics and noisy protesters
feature Many Americans are fed up with our gridlocked politics and sputtering economy. But there's still plenty to be grateful for
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Nearly all Americans think of themselves as patriots
feature And they're right
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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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Uncle Sam is actually good at building websites
feature Just not Healthcare.gov
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The summer of ObamaCare, avoidance, and our discontent
feature Goodbye, summer. And good riddance.
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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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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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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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