Paul Waldman
author and commentator
Paul Waldman is a journalist and author whose writing has appeared in dozens of publications. He writes The Cross Section, a newsletter about politics and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name. His latest book is “White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy.”
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Democratic primary turnout and pushback to Republican efforts to gerrymander seats are inhibiting the triumph Trump might have initially expected.
The scandal persists for deeper reasons than because Republicans haven’t been able to divert attention onto some of their old political enemies.
How the pro-Israel group’s purity test in a New Jersey special election became an own goal.
In 2020, when a federal contractor working with the Internal Revenue Service leaked Trump’s tax returns to The New York Times, we discovered that Trump paid only $750 in federal taxes in 2020.
The Clintons’ position is that the subpoenas are “invalid and legally unenforceable” and meant solely to embarrass them.
The Trump administration is engaged in a comprehensive war, and its enemy is half of America.
Why this president’s advancing years raise different issues than Joe Biden’s.
The new conservative panic over fraud involving child care providers in Minnesota — which has long been under investigation and led to dozens of convictions — is a vivid illustration of how the right-wing propaganda machine works.
The Democratic push for release of the files was messy. But it was worth it.
A new Democratic slogan is emblematic of an approach the party’s leadership always seems to take: They’re too afraid of offending anybody to call out villains.
