
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 North Korea summit is shaping up to be one of Trump's biggest disastersopinion It's already going down the tubes
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The coming Trump faceplant on North Koreaopinion It's already clear how the president's negotiations with Kim Jong Un will end
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Spoiler alert: Trump will probably bomb Syriaopinion 4 reasons why Trump is almost certainly going to lob missiles at Assad
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What does Trump want from Putin?opinion On the lopsided relationship between the American and Russian presidents
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Why the answer to America's gun problem lies due northopinion Emulate Canada?
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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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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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Ban gunsopinion Yeah, I'll say it
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Leadership tips from Donald J. Trumpopinion When people for whom you're responsible suffer unexpected hardship, take the opportunity to insult them
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Just let North Korea have nukesopinion Kim Jong Un is acting rationally about nuclear weapons. Is Trump?
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How badly will Trump's trip go?opinion "They're freaking out"
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The most powerful Cabinet ever faces the least serious hearings everfeature That's an obvious problem
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How killer robots will save us allfeature Autonomous robots might sound scary, but in the future, they could actually prevent a lot of unnecessary deaths
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In defense of Peter Thiel's vampirismopinion I, too, would like to live to be 1,000
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How America inadvertently set up a natural experiment on gun controlThe Explainer At the state level, America has moved in two different directions on guns simultaneously. It's already very revealing.
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Why billionaires are so easily duped by political griftersfeature 2016 is going to be a bonanza for the consultant class
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How killer robots will save us allopinion Autonomous robots might sound scary, but in the future, they could actually prevent a lot of unnecessary deaths
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The GOP presidential candidates really embarrassed themselves during the Iran navy incidentopinion It was a brainless display of brawn
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The limits of the Second Amendmentopinion The Supreme Court just declined to hear a case on the assault weapons ban. What does that mean for gun control?
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America's grim bargain on gunsopinion Every year, 33,636 Americans pay for the Second Amendment with their lives
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Who gets to decide whether Han shot first?The Explainer We live in an age in which audiences simply reject a filmmaker's explanation of what happens in his movie
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In defense of hot takesopinion We are in a golden age of opinion writing. Time to savor it.
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Aylan Kurdi, and the ethics of an image that shocked the worldThe Explainer When is it okay to publish a photo of a dead toddler?
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The frightening truth about the future of driverless carsopinion For self-driving cars to be safe, they have to communicate. And that makes them vulnerable to hackers.
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