Paul Waldman
{{Short description|American writer}}
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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 Post{{'}}s Plum Line blog.
Career
Waldman was formerly a senior researcher at the Annenberg Public Policy Center.{{cite web | url=http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/Downloads/Political_Communication/NAES/index-old.htm | title=The National Annenberg Election Survey | publisher=University of Pennsylvania | work=Annenberg Public Policy Center | access-date=19 May 2016}} From 2004 to 2009, he worked at Media Matters for America.{{cite web | url=http://prospect.org/article/whose-media-bias-0 | title=Whose Media Bias? | work=The American Prospect | date=31 August 2010 | access-date=19 May 2016 | author=Waldman, Paul}} In 2020, referencing a Ta-Nehisi Coates article that described Donald Trump as "the first white president," Waldman has proposed that Trump, drawing on decades of rhetoric that amplifies "whiteness as an identity and locus of oppression," has utilized white identity as a foundational aspect of his presidency.{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/05/how-rush-limbaugh-made-trump-presidency-possible/ |title=How Rush Limbaugh made the Trump presidency possible|author=Paul Waldman|quote=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. |date=February 5, 2020|newspaper=The Washington Post}}
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)
- White Rural Rage: The Threat to America's Democracy (2024, with Tom Schaller)
References
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External links
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- [http://theweek.com/authors/paul-waldman Biography] at the Week
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