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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If only the president had demanded a fundamental rethinking of the goals and tactics of American foreign policy Read more
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Changing the trajectory of the country is apparently off the table. Read more
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Investigating the logical leaps at the heart of the Trump defense campaign Read more
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Is this any way to defend a president? Read more
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Trump has revealed to us something awful about our country, and having learned it we can’t see things the way we used to. Read more
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The attorney general is using the full resources of his office in pursuit of preposterous conspiracy theories. Read more
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In the midst of an impeachment crisis, a Middle East crisis, and a trade crisis, Trump finds time to indulge his pettiest impulses. Read more
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With his love of conspiracy theories and associations with criminal elements, the president’s personal attorney may well be the agent of Trump’s destruction. Read more
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The next couple of years could play out very differently thanks to what last week’s impeachment inquiry set in motion. Read more
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What is the thing we worried Trump would do that he hasn’t done? Read more
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Every candidate confronts some kind of scandal. The candidates who win are the ones who can move past them. Read more
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The answer is profoundly troubling. Read more
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The moral and professional accounting some Republicans feared will never take place. Read more
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The suburbs may be slipping from the Republicans' grasp. Read more
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The House's only black Republican will not seek re-election. Read more
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The answer is profoundly troubling. Read more
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The moral and professional accounting some Republicans feared will never take place. Read more
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The suburbs may be slipping from the Republicans' grasp. Read more
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The House's only black Republican will not seek re-election. Read more
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If it wasn’t, Donald Trump wouldn’t be sitting in the White House. But it’s not all of who we are, either. Read more
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The president's 2020 campaign will be much like his 2016 campaign, only more so. Read more
It's when the GOP learned that winning washes away all your sins. Read more
They are never beaten, because they never stop fighting. Even when Democrats think they've won. Read more
Biden could wind up being the Jeb Bush of 2020. Read more
Accepting help from hostile foreign powers is just the beginning. Read more
How Arthur Laffer taught the GOP to govern without restraint Read more
Sixteen years ago, leading Democrats shied away from doing the right thing. Today, they're perilously close to making the same mistake. Read more
Trump views his freedom from the constraint of morals or ideals as his greatest strength. Read more
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In an era of hyper-partisanship, going moderate may not be a winning strategy. Read more
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The president of the United States says he wants to intentionally harm Americans who didn't vote for him, for no reason other than retribution. We have never seen anything like it in our lifetimes. Read more
Obama couldn't do it, and neither could Clinton. Can any of these candidates? Read more
