
Paul Waldman
Paul Waldman is a senior writer with The American Prospect magazine and a blogger for The Washington Post. His writing has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines, and web sites, and he is the author or co-author of four books on media and politics.
Latest articles by Paul Waldman
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The GOP will survive Trump. But in what kind of shape?opinion It's not a pretty picture ...
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Deus Ex Arpaioopinion Why nutty Republicans are a godsend for Democrats
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How Trump convinced America that character doesn't matteropinion Trump's twisted behavior has made it harder for us to draw the right connections between presidential character, leadership, and policy
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The silver lining of Trump's vulgar immigration remarksopinion Thank you, President Trump, for forcing another frank discussion about who makes America what it is
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Trump's sneak attack on the pooropinion How the Trump administration is using Medicaid to wage war on poor people
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The Republican stampede out of Congressopinion It's only going to get worse
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Why Trump's attorneys are desperate to keep Mueller from interviewing himopinion Just look at what happened when he was deposed in 2007
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Trump doesn't work very hard. Great!opinion Why Trump's 'executive time' is the best news I've heard in a while
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How Bannonism got Trumpedopinion Even before Wolff's bombshell, Bannon's agenda was dead
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The extraordinary weakness of President Trumpopinion No one is afraid of him anymore
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Mitt Romney is exactly what the Republican Party needs right nowopinion Sen. Mitt Romney would be no Trump stooge
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Trump's war on Justiceopinion Why the president continues to lash out at his own Justice Department
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Are Republicans having second thoughts about destroying the safety net?opinion Paul Ryan wants to go down swinging. Mitch McConnell doesn't think that's such a good idea.
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Republicans' absurd revisionist history of President Trump's first yearopinion Republicans are trying to convince themselves that the Trump presidency is working out for them. Here's why they're wrong.
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The GOP's reality problemopinion The news media isn't biased against the Trump administration. It just hates being lied to.
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Republicans have just passed the worst tax bill in American historyopinion Congrats?
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Republicans are acting like Trump's guiltyopinion The implicit assumption behind every attack on the Russia investigation? He did it.
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Everyone has figured out how susceptible Trump is to flattery — except Trumpopinion The path to the president's favor will remain open to anyone who can stomach taking it
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Everything is going according to Paul Ryan's planopinion Why the speaker of the House really might be contemplating an early exit
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Jeff Sessions might have destroyed the Trump presidencyopinion Why tapping him for attorney general was Trump's most spectacularly self-destructive mistake
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Star Wars and the unfortunate ubiquity of the Final Climactic ExplosionThe Explainer For the love of the Force, don't let The Last Jedi end with a bang
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The GOP's bummer in 'Bamaopinion Republicans are going to lose in Alabama — no matter what happens to Roy Moore
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What the Star Wars 'who-shot-first' controversy tells us about modern-day fandomfeature We live in an age in which audiences simply reject a filmmaker's explanation of what happens in his movie
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Republicans' Mueller freakoutopinion The GOP is really coming unglued over the Russia investigation
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