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

Rubio's recurring Trump nightmare

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Opinion

America's made-up culture of guns

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Opinion

Republicans' Census plot

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Opinion

Has gun reform reached a tipping point?

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Opinion

The retrograde fantasies of a Trump-Biden rumble

President Trump, Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal, and Robert Mueller.

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Opinion

Trump is finally getting a taste of accountability. And it's driving him nuts.

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Opinion

Can anyone stop Trump from firing Mueller?

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Opinion

Why Trump can't get over his wall

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Opinion

Nancy Pelosi doesn't care if you hate her

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Opinion

'You're looking handsome, Larry': How the reality TV president found the perfect idiot to be his chief economic adviser

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes.

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Opinion

How Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee bungled another coverup

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Opinion

It's not the economy, stupid

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Analysis

The Pennsylvania special election is pure madness

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Opinion

All the crazy things Trump wants you to believe about the Stormy Daniels scandal

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Opinion

Donald Trump is the Prop 187 president

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Opinion

The Republican Congress is officially giving up

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Opinion

How Democrats learned to stop worrying and love the left

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Opinion

Trump's transubstantiation of falsehood into truth

President Trump and NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre.

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Opinion

Something stinks about the NRA's Russia story

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Opinion

The president's Trumpinator fantasy

President Donald Trump listens to survivors of school shootings.

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Opinion

President Trump says he wants to do something about guns. Don't believe him for a second.

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Opinion

The myth of the invincible NRA

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Opinion

Why the answer to America's gun problem lies due north

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Opinion

Why Trump feasts on scandal

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Opinion

There's nothing futile about the gun debate

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Opinion

The perfect Stormy

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Opinion

The Russians are coming

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Opinion

Trump's budget reveals the GOP's priorities in all their hideous glory

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Opinion

Trump doesn't get the 'best people.' He gets the worst. Here's why.

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Opinion

Joe Biden wants to run for president again? Go right ahead, loser.

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Opinion

Can Trump really refuse to answer Mueller's questions?

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Opinion

Republicans tried to discredit the Russia investigation. Instead they discredited themselves.

Rep. Devin Nunes, Rep. Peter King, and Rep. Ron DeSantis.

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Opinion

Can Trump's battalion of buffoons really defeat the FBI?

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes.

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Opinion

The media is about to give Devin Nunes exactly what he wants

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Opinion

The extraordinary nihilism of Republican attacks on the Russia investigation

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Opinion

Republicans go full Illuminati