Paul Waldman

year ago, Atlantic Monthly writer Virginia Postrel, in an article entitled “In Praise of Chain Stores,” argued that the homogenization of our commercial landscapes is on balance a good thing. Mom & Pop’s Hardware may be charming, Postrel contended, but with the exception of Mom and Pop themselves, most of us will be better off […]

For a certain kind of conservative, the life lived in anything other than a state of war is hardly worth living. War clarifies things. War divides the world neatly between us and our enemies. War offers a kind of moral cleansing that makes ones own transgressions meaningless in the face of the other sides abominations […]

“I think it’s really unfortunate. They broke the law and they’ve been found guilty breaking it. I had nothing to do with that. I haven’t broken any laws. I did nothing wrong.” –Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) “I guess he contributed to a lot of people, and a lot of contributions from his efforts went to […]

No, liberals, it’s not your imagination. “Meet the Press” and the other Sunday political talk shows really have leaned more to the right in recent years. At Media Matters for America, we looked at every one of the 7,000 guests who appeared on the three major Sunday shows from 1997 through 2005–Bill Clinton’s second term, […]

No, liberals, it’s not your imagination. Meet the Press and the other Sunday political talk shows really have leaned more to the right in recent years. At Media Matters for America, we looked at every one of the 7,000 guests who appeared on the three major Sunday shows from 1997 through 2005Bill Clinton’s second term, […]