West Wing Reports

02/01/2024

No prior administration has been unable to bring the price Americans pay for their meds down - until now. in January and now, possibly ten more big drugs. Consumers could eventually save billions. My latest / column: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/seniors-could-soon-get-a-big-break-on-drug-prices-0d8f784b?mod=search_headline.

The federal government will begin negotiating prices on 10 costly prescription drugs covered by Medicare.

02/03/2023

a Kennedy assassination book that doesn't cover the actual assassination? Nope. Too many of those. My latest book delves into issues like cognitive dissonance - why humans are wired to process data and why we believe certain things. Example: Everyone thinks the Titanic broke in half before it sank, right? But guess who said it didn't? Actual Titanic survivors, including senior officers - as I explain by detailing their testimony before a 1912 Senate commission. History and the way it is told decades later can also skew "conventional wisdom" about other history-making events, such as the death of the president six decades ago.

John F. Kennedy’s fascination with death—particularly his own—and Lee Harvey Oswald’s love of violence and desire for fame made November 22, 1963 p...

10/23/2022

What an ant really looks like (really)
Credit: Nikon Small World/Eugenijus Kavaliauskas

10/21/2022

Poverty rates are falling for everyone - except seniors. Why? My latest / column
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more-seniors-are-being-pushed-into-poverty-heres-why-11666314655?mod=search_headline

What happened to the 'golden years'?

06/05/2021

Stockholm.

08/02/2019

Publication date for the next book from WWR's Paul Brandus - "Jackie: The In-Between Years" (covers the 5-year period between Jacqueline Kennedy's marriages to JFK & Onassis) - is May 5. Post Hill Press sales/distrbution by Simon & Schuster. Here: Dec 6, 1963 - the day Jackie left the White House for good

02/10/2019

This Day, 1961: This iconic JFK photo is often misinterpreted. It is usually assumed that Kennedy was deep in thought, burdened with a grave Cold War crisis. Actually, he was just reading a newspaper. He had a bad back and often worked standing up (Photo/George Tames, NY Times)

10/22/2018

After the 2010 red wave that gave Repubs control of the House, I asked President Obama why Dems don't vote in midterms. "I don't know," he said. "But we're gonna find out." But they didn't vote in 2014, either. What about now? Latest column from WWR's Paul Brandus

Democrats have midterms momentum, but remember 2016 and don't get comfortable. Blue wave hinges on women, millennials and Hispanics actually voting.

07/03/2018

Latest column by WWR's Paul Brandus for / : compared to other presidents - Adams, Lincoln (yes, really) and Nixon, to name but a few - Trump's treatment of the press has so far been more bark than bite

Trump’s attacks on the media are not unprecedented.

06/11/2018

Trump's loud mouth and bluster has burned bridges elsewhere, but could possibly pay off in Korea. Latest column by Paul Brandus for and

Trump deserves credit for taking a new approach in dealing with one of the most dangerous problems on the planet: North Korea and its deadly arsenal of nuclear weapons, writes Paul Brandus.

05/18/2018

The next battle over guns could involve the tax man. Latest column by WWRs Paul Brandus

Guns and ammunition could be increasingly seen as an undertapped source of revenue, writes Paul Brandus.

05/17/2018

Kim turns the tables on Trump - my latest column

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/17/north-korea-summit-kim-jong-un-donald-trump-nuclear-war-column/614961002/