A 50-state strategy wouldn’t work in the ’90s and it wouldn’t work now.Â
Paul Waldman
Paul Waldman is a weekly columnist and senior writer for The American Prospect. He also writes for the Plum Line blog at The Washington Post and The Week and is the author of Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success.
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Does the Iowa Caucus Still Matter?
Why the Ames Straw Poll is not the bellwether it once was.Â
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Honor Our War Dead On Memorial Day — They Won’t Be the Last
Reflecting on the complicated legacy—and future—of our military engagements.Â
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Why Everyone Wants the Military Budget to Be Bigger
It’s not about “defense.”Â
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Photo of the Day, Another Brick In the Wall Edition
View image | gettyimages.com A visitor at an exhibition of artist Nathan Sawaya’s Lego sculptures in Paris takes a moment to reflect. Are we all merely collections of interchangeable blocks, formed into temporary coherence only to be disassembled before we slip into the eternal void? Who is real, and who is the simulacrum? Will there […]
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Now It’s Time For Hillary Clinton to Answer Some Questions About the Iraq War
View image | gettyimages.com Jeb Bush has now been bludgeoned into submission on Iraq, a development that is remarkable when you step back and look at how quickly the Republican consensus on that topic has changed. Two weeks ago you wouldn’t have predicted that most of the Republicans would now say the war should never […]
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Photo of the Day, Men In Shorts Firing Antique Guns Edition
View image | gettyimages.com This picture comes from the celebration in Bavaria of Christi Himmelfahrt, marking the ascension of Christ to heaven. What does Jesus have to do with firing antique guns into the air while wearing traditional Bavarian outfits? I have no idea, but that guy in the middle isn’t having nearly as much […]
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The Myth of ‘Faulty Intelligence’
View image | gettyimages.com The Iraq War, both how it began and how it proceeded, is now an active topic in the 2016 presidential campaign, which I think is a highly salutary development. But it does mean that we need to be on guard for the kind of distortions, misleading statements, and outright lies that […]
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Photo of the Day, You Look Mahvelous Edition
View image | gettyimages.com A staffer at Madame Tussaud’s in London prepares Chewbacca for the wax museum’s new Star Wars exhibit. I can only imagine the amount of conditioner it takes to keep all that hair shiny and manageable.
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How Changes In Americans’ Religious Views Are Cornering the GOP
View image | gettyimages.com Just yesterday, I wrote a critical post about Jeb Bush’s recent speech at Liberty University in which he essentially made a case for Christianity as the greatest of all religions (“Consider a whole alternative universe of power without restraint, conflict without reconciliation, oppression without deliverance, corruption without reformation, tragedy without renewal, […]
