View image | gettyimages.com For a number of reasons, it has proven extremely difficult in recent history for a presidential candidate to win after eight years in which his party controlled the White House. Only one candidate has done it since 1948-George H.W. Bush in 1988. This fact would make a Hillary Clinton victory next […]
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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Hillary Clinton is Just as Polarizing as Every Other Major Political Figure — No More, No Less
Contrary to popular pundit belief, among 2016 contenders, Hillary is easily the most popular. Â
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Hillary Clinton Is Just As Polarizing As Every Other Major Political Figure — No More, No Less
I’m guessing that you may have heard that Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for the White House Sunday in this video. Before that even happened, you may also have heard that lots of people don’t like Hillary Clinton. In the coming months, each new poll showing substantial disapproval, dislike, or disquiet with the prospect of […]
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Photo of the Day, Consumer Mania Edition
View image | gettyimages.com These young people in Tokyo are dispassionately assessing the new offerings from the Apple corporation. Will they buy an Apple Watch? Perhaps they will, but only after a long, thoughtful process of consideration in which they are assured that the product will be of sufficient benefit to justify its high price.
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Republican Candidates Troop to Festival of Paranoia and Fear-Mongering
View image | gettyimages.com The National Rifle Association starts its annual convention today, and there will be plenty of time spent bashing both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, not least because the speakers include Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, Rick Santorum, and […]
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The Remarkable Persistence of Crackpot Economics in the GOP
The most horrifying article you can read today is not about Ayatollah Khamenei’s troubling comments on the Iran nuclear deal, it’s this piece from Jim Tankersley of The Washington Post about how all the GOP presidential candidates are lining up to receive the wisdom of Arthur Laffer as they formulate their economic plans. This is […]
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A Reminder About Netanyahu, Iraq, and Iran
View image | gettyimages.com Just a few weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked like a figure with huge influence in American politics. There he was addressing Congress, with Republicans practically carrying him into the House chamber on their shoulders. He was on every American television show he wanted, delivering his dark warnings of […]
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Why Republicans Won’t Convince the Electorate That Hillary Clinton Is a Radical
View image | gettyimages.com One of the persistent conservative narratives about Hillary Clinton is that her identity as a supposedly moderate Democrat is a ruse, meant to conceal her radical leftist intents. If and when she reaches her long-held goal of becoming president, the mask will be removed and the true horror of her socialist […]
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Photo of the Day, Their Elections Are As Dumb As Ours Edition
View image | gettyimages.com That’s prime minister David Cameron, campaigning ahead of the May 7 elections in Great Britain. You see, the little lamb represents the hopes and dreams of every Briton, to whom Cameron’s Conservative Party will gently feed the nourishing milk of prudent fiscal and monetary policy, so it can grow up big […]
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Rand Paul—and Every Other Candidate—to Run Against Washington
View image | gettyimages.com You know what America needs? A candidate who will change the way they do business in Washington, bring an outsider’s perspective, stand up to all those politicians, and make Washington work for America and not the other way around! I know we need that, because that’s what Barack Obama told us […]
