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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’s Budget Strategy Taxes the Rich to Give to the Middle Class

By Eric Pianin and Brianna Ehley

With one eye on his legacy and another on his party’s prospects in 2016, President Obama has set the stage for his State of the Union speech on Tuesday with a flurry of new proposals largely tailored...
Joni Ernst: 21 Things You Didn’t Know About Her

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Iowa’s freshman senator, Joni Ernst, will be in the national spotlight Tuesday night when she gives the Republican Party response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. “I am truly honored...
Romney’s New War on Poverty for 2016

By Dan Balz and Philip Rucker, The Washington Post

SAN DIEGO - Mitt Romney laid down a marker for a prospective presidential campaign in 2016, telling a Republican audience here Friday night that the party can win the White House with a conservative...
‘Scores’ of Navy Officials Bribed with Cash, Prostitutes

By Eric Pianin

He admitted to showering “scores” of Navy officials with $500,000 worth of cash bribes, sending them on free trips to exotic locations and setting them up with high-end prostitutes. In return,...
Obamacare’s Newest Chief to Face Big Challenges

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

Pass the popcorn--it looks like it's going to be an even more interesting year for Obamacare. The top official in charge of the law’s implementation – Marilyn Tavenner, head of the Centers for...

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