We will never be completely free of the threat of terrorism—but we can work to minimize that threat.
Blog: Paul Waldman
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Why There Will Be More Violence During This Campaign
Anger, desperation, and the desire for drama push people to each other’s throats.
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Spare a Thought For Those Condemned to Defend Donald Trump
It’s a soul-crushing job, but someone has to do it.
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Donald Trump Is a New Kind of Dissembler
Is our system equipped to handle someone with such an antagonistic relationship to the truth?
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Why Hillary Clinton May be Doomed to Repeat the Obama Presidency
Two years to legislate, and then a big Republican victory that stymies her—and that’s if she’s lucky.
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Why Republicans Couldn’t Make 2016 Their Version of 2008
If Obama embodied Democrats eight years ago, who embodies today’s Republicans?
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Why Hillary Clinton Could Be the Kind of President Bernie Sanders Supporters Will Love
She’ll be as liberal as liberals force her to be.
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New Yorkers Clamor to Vote in Primaries
Remember when Ben Carson was the frontrunner in the Republican presidential primary? Or when Bernie Sanders consistently failed to poll above 30 percent against Hillary Clinton? Or when Nate Silver assured us that Trump’s collapse was inevitable? All this described the state of the presidential race about six months ago-around the same time that voters […]
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Republicans Haven’t Stopped Digging Their Hole with Latino Voters
Remember the Etch A Sketch? It’s going to be awfully hard to shake up in the fall.
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Donald Trump’s Ignorant Honesty
Unlike the career politicians he’s competing against, the Donald never learned what he is and isn’t supposed to say.
