Paul Waldman, Author at The American Prospect

Why the Media Are Digging Jeb Bush’s Grave

The Bush Deathwatch is under way, and it bears only a partial relationship to reality.

In any other year, he might have been the logical GOP nominee. But this was the worst possible year for him to run.

What do you know, a major Democratic presidential candidate is going after the NRA.

The delusion that one person with a rifle can fend off doomsday explains how many on the right see their relationship with the government.

by Paul Waldman October 5, 2015

How do we explain Bernie Sanders’s remarkable success?

Politicians and voters, both pretending their party can do things it can’t.

How abortion became the dominant issue of Republican politics.

What used to seem impossible no longer does.

No matter what Hillary does, the media thirst for scandal will be unquenched.