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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.

If Today Was November 8, 2016, Hillary Clinton Would Crush Jeb, Mitt, Rand, Ted, Chris, Mike….

By Eric Pianin

Americans are less turned off by ‘dynasty politics’ than some political experts and surveys have suggested in assessing Hillary Clinton’s prospects in the 2016 presidential campaign. A new Washington...
The Supreme Court Will Rule on a Case That Could Rip America Apart

By David Dayen

It’s a cruel irony that on the same week that we honor the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether to weaken the Fair Housing Act (FHA) of 1968, an anti-...
Tax Loopholes the President Left Out – for Now

By Amey Stone

Obama didn’t mention some of his most popular ideas for closing loopholes that benefit the wealthy during his State of the Union speech. Here’s why.
How 11 Politicians Responded to Obama’s #SOTU Speech

By Josh Stelzer, The Fiscal Times

Regardless of how you feel about President Obama's State of the Union address , it did little to end partisanship in Washington. Below are a few Twitter reactions from politicians to the president's...
GOP Blasts Obama for ‘Listless’ Anti-Terror Strategy Against ISIS

By Eric Pianin

President Obama said on Tuesday night that he was asking Congress to approve new authorization for him in the battle against ISIS, declaring that lawmakers from both parties must “show the world that...

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