Paul Waldman Explained

Paul Waldman (born February 27, 1968) is a liberal American op-ed columnist and senior writer for The American Prospect, as well as a contributor to The Week and a blogger for the Washington Posts Plum Line blog.

Career

Waldman was formerly a senior researcher at the Annenberg Public Policy Center.^[1] From 2004 to 2009, he worked at Media Matters for America.^[2] In 2020, referencing a Ta-Nehisi Coates article which described Donald Trump as "the first white president", Waldman has proposed that Trump, drawing on decades of rhetoric which amplifies "whiteness as an identity and locus of oppression", has utilized white identity into a foundational aspect of his presidency.^[3]

Books

• The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories That Shape the Political World (2000, with Kathleen Hall Jamieson)
• Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and why the Media Didn't Tell You (2004)
• Being Right is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success (2006)
• Free Ride: John McCain and the Media (2008, with David Brock)
• (2024, with Tom Schaller)

External links

• Biography at the Week

Notes and References

1. Web site: The National Annenberg Election Survey . University of Pennsylvania . Annenberg Public Policy Center . 19 May 2016.
2. Web site: Whose Media Bias? . The American Prospect . 31 August 2010 . 19 May 2016 . Waldman, Paul.
3. News: How Rush Limbaugh made the Trump presidency possible. Paul Waldman. The effect is to increase the salience of whiteness as an identity and locus of oppression, an idea that came to fruition in Trump’s presidential candidacy. As Ta-Nehisi Coates has written, Trump is “the first white president,” in that he is the first president who elevated white identity to such a central place in his political project. . February 5, 2020. The Washington Post.