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February 2026

There Are No Good Guys Here
The Pentagon is fighting with Anthropic, the supposedly moral AI company. But no one deserves the benefit of the doubt.
 • Paul Waldman
Trump Is Getting Less Popular, But Is It Really About His Authoritarianism?
If the economy was humming, his approval ratings probably wouldn't still be in the 30s.
 • Paul Waldman
Democrats Need Religious Candidates - and Religious Voters
Non-religious liberals might get uncomfortable at the visible piety of candidates like Andy Beshear and James Talarico. But they're important for the…
 • Paul Waldman
MAGA White Supremacists Are a Bunch of Pathetic Losers
The proper response to these whiners is mockery and contempt.
 • Paul Waldman
Trump Will Never Stop Dragging the American Economy Down
We might not get a catastrophic recession, but as long as he's president things will be worse than they ought to be.
 • Paul Waldman
Congrats on Joining the Ubiquitous Surveillance Panopticon
Oh, you have a problem with that? I guess you don't want to find lost dogs, you monster.
 • Paul Waldman
Jeff Bezos Is Killing the Washington Post
People inside the paper used to see him as a savior. Now he's become an executioner.
 • Paul Waldman
The Right's Greatest Fear Is an Organized Left
What's happening in Minneapolis is deep democratic participation, and the right says it can't be real.
 • Paul Waldman

January 2026

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