Paul Waldman

Columnist

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.

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Opinion

Obama's America is the one we hope for. Trump's America is the one we live in.

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Opinion

MS-13 is Republicans' new Willie Horton

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Opinion

Jeff Flake's 2020 kamikaze mission

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Opinion

How Democrats should tackle Trump in the midterms

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Opinion

What will Trump do next with North Korea? Absolutely nothing.

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Opinion

Trump's strategy to fight Mueller is crazy — but it's just crazy enough to work

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Opinion

How Trump is putting the squeeze on American workers

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Opinion

The North Korea summit is shaping up to be one of Trump's biggest disasters

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Opinion

The leakiest White House in history

An undocumented immigrant and ICE officers.

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Opinion

Trump's 'animals'

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Opinion

The new details on that infamous Trump Tower meeting are damning

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

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Opinion

Why Democrats are suddenly fretting about the midterms

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Opinion

Why Republicans will never reform immigration

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Opinion

Michael who? How Republicans will try to brush off the mounting Trump omniscandal.

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Opinion

Trump drinks from the swamp

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Opinion

Follow the rubles

Opinion

Rudy Giuliani's truth bomb

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Opinion

Trump is suggesting he's above the law — and you should be outraged

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Opinion

Trump's worst fear about Mueller is coming true

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Opinion

The impeachment distraction

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Opinion

Why Democrats are about to get stoked about postal banking

Demonstrators at the March for our Lives rally.

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Opinion

Why the left shouldn't take yes for an answer

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Opinion

The coming Trump faceplant on North Korea

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Opinion

The GOP has finally figured out a 2018 strategy. Her name is Hillary Clinton.

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Opinion

Everyone Trump likes is telling him to fire Mueller. That's a bad sign.

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Opinion

Stormy Daniels is still running circles around President Trump

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Opinion

Will Michael Cohen get an offer he can't refuse?

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Opinion

Americans don't pay enough taxes

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Opinion

What the new GOP offensive against James Comey is really about

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Opinion

Trump's careening presidency

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Opinion

The Cohen raid isn't just bad for Trump. It's an outright disaster.

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Opinion

Spoiler alert: Trump will probably bomb Syria

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Opinion

Will we ever escape politics' doom loop?

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Opinion

Trump is not safe from Mueller. Not by a long shot.

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Opinion

The radicalization of the Democratic Party is astoundingly popular

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Opinion

What does Trump want from Putin?