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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.

Obama Trounces Putin in Global Ratings of Leadership

By Eric Pianin

People worldwide have given U.S. political leadership the highest approval rating of the five major global powers – while Russia’s leadership is in the cellar. That’s according to Gallup’s latest...
Democrats Enraged Over Closely Guarded Trade Deal

By Rob Garver

A bill to grant special legislative status to a secretive trade agreement, supported by both the president and Congressional Republicans drew howls of outrage from President Obama’s usual allies.
Hillary Is Playing Smart Ball in the First Half

By Edward Morrissey

Hillary Clinton finally joined the 2016 presidential sweepstakes this past weekend, but it might have been easy to miss. Unlike her competitors in the Republican Party over the past three weeks, the...
11 New Tax Laws House Republicans Want to Pass Now

By Rob Garver

To celebrate Tax Day on Wednesday, House Republicans have prepared a raft of proposals aimed at changing both the way U.S. citizens are taxed and the way the Internal Revenue Service enforces tax law.
Why Marco Rubio Might Just Beat Hillary Clinton

By Liz Peek

Marco Rubio winning the Republican nomination would be like Jordan Spieth winning the Masters. We would be just so darned proud of him. Like the 21-year-old Spieth, Rubio is the kind of clean-cut,...

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