Paul Waldman
Columnist at MSNBC
Writer at The Cross Section
Formerly: Washington Post, The Week, American Prospect. MSNBC columnist, co-host of Boundary Issues. Author, The Cross Section: https://t.co/NcC1hMgD9J
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1 week ago |
msnbc.com | Paul Waldman
President Donald Trump has a lot of problems in the bathroom, and he isn’t shy about sharing them. Faucets? “You want to wash your hands. You turn on the water and it goes drip, drip. The soap, you can’t get it off your hand.” Toilets? “People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once.” Showers? “I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes till [my hair] gets wet. It comes out drip, drip, drip.
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1 week ago |
thedailybeast.com | Paul Waldman
On Wall Street and in C-suites across the country, titans of American industry and capital are aghast. How could President Donald Trump plunge us into ruinous trade wars amid yo-yoing tariffs and send markets into chaos ahead of a widely speculated recession? They gave him their support and their donations, and this is how he repays them? The better question is: How were they so naïve as to think this wouldn’t happen? It’s hard not to take some satisfaction in the sudden distress of the plutocrats.
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1 week ago |
thedailybeast.com | Paul Waldman
The parent company of the political jewel, The New Republic, is in peril. What is the fate of the magazine?
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2 weeks ago |
msnbc.com | Paul Waldman
As candidate and as president, Donald Trump has spun promises of a revived coal industry and limitless jobs. He has promised the residents of coal country, who have struggled so much in the last couple of decades, a prosperity greater than they ever experienced. In his first presidency, he came nowhere close to fulfilling that pledge. And now he’s at it again.
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3 weeks ago |
msnbc.com | Paul Waldman
If Republicans had a path to winning the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on Tuesday, it started in the rural counties that pulled Donald Trump to victory in 2016 and 2024. If the GOP-backed candidate had performed well enough there, it might have overcome voters’ displeasure with Trump’s presidency. But it was not to be. Compared to last year’s presidential race, Republicans lost ground in every corner of the state, including rural counties.
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