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As Trump Announces Afghanistan Strategy, Here’s What the War Has Cost

By Yuval Rosenberg

President Trump will deliver his first prime-time address to the nation at 9 p.m. EDT tonight and is expected to announce that he’s sending thousands more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. If that is the...
The Walls Are Closing In as Allies Abandon Trump

By Rob Garver

Things have looked grim for Donald Trump’s future more than once in his relatively brief career as a politician. But on Wednesday, the cracks in the edifice of his public standing were really...
Why Renegotiating NAFTA Won’t Be as Easy as Trump Says

By David Francis

As NAFTA talks get underway, there are questions about what Trump can get done when it comes to major trade deals.
Obamacare Premiums and Budget Deficits Will Soar If Trump Ends Insurer Subsidies

By Rob Garver

If the Trump administration follows through on its threat to stop paying insurance companies a controversial set of subsidies established by the Affordable Care Act, the government will lose money...
What Happened to Trump’s Infrastructure Boom? Spending Is Actually Falling

By Rob Garver

Now, well past six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, the construction industry would like to know where those infrastructure dollars he promised are. While a slowly improving economy has been...

Trump Is Headed for a Collision With the Auto Industry as NAFTA Talks Loom

By David Lawder, Reuters

The Trump administration has set a collision course with the auto industry as it launches renegotiations of the 23-year-old NAFTA trade pact this week, aiming to shrink a growing trade deficit with...
One More Try? Why Obamacare Repeal Is on the Horizon Again

By Rob Garver

The effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which many assumed was dead or at least in a state of suspended animation for the foreseeable future, may be showing some stirring of life...
White House Advisers Insist That Trump Opposes Nazis

By Rob Garver

Nazi rallies are like the big, fat hanging curveball of American politics -- the sort of pitch any minimally competent public figure can put in the cheap seats without even thinking about it. But...
Will GOP Anger With Trump Over Charlottesville Be Different This Time?

By Rob Garver

After President Trump made brief remarks on Saturday related to the violent white nationalist protest in Virginia, the country saw something that it hadn’t seen in a while: a full-blown stampede of...
What Game Theory Tells Us About Trump’s ‘Madman’ Approach to North Korea

By Rob Garver

Is Donald Trump out of his mind? Maybe he wants North Korea to think so.

U.S. Air Strikes Target Hidden ISIS Forces

By Eric Pianin

After directing most of its fire power to blowing up buildings in Iraq and Syria in pursuit of ISIS terrorists, the U.S and allied forces more recently have altered their tactics by going after...
Obama, the Most Progressive President Since LBJ, Gets Whacked by His Own Left Wing

By Edward Morrissey

Sometimes it’s easy to miss the forest for the trees, or in this case the schadenfreude . The disagreement between progressive Democrats and the White House flamed into open political war this week,...
From the Senate to the Cities, Dems in Disarray on Trade

By Rob Garver

As Senate Democrats on Tuesday filibustered a key initiative of a Democratic president over disagreements on trade policy, Democratic mayors of large U.S. cities demonstrated that the divisions...
Obama vs. Warren on Fast Track: Why This Fight Is Getting So Nasty

By Eric Pianin

President Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) never were particularly close, even when Obama backed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau she proposed as part of the Dodd-Frank financial...
Obama Dials Back the Anger on Fast Track

By Rob Garver

In a speech delivered at the Beaverton, Ore., Headquarters of athletic apparel giant Nike, President Obama opted for a more subdued approach in his defense of the Trans Pacific Trade Partnership.

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