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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.

Political Wins Don’t Give Us the Lift We Expect

By Futurity Org, Futurity

Winning barely makes people from the winning political party happier, a new study finds. In addition, being on the losing side reduces self-reported happiness and increases sadness substantially. The...
Tuesday’s Minimum Wage Hikes Could Inspire More States

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

Minimum wage proponents had a huge victory on Tuesday—with four new states joining the growing wave of state and local governments pushing to boost the pay of their low wage workers. On Tuesday,...
Obama on Immigration: How He Could Foul It Up

By Eric Pianin

President Obama’s decision several months ago to delay imposing an immigration reform executive order may have backfired – it may have discouraged Hispanic voters from turning out for Tuesday’s...
The Senate Baton Passes to McConnell and the GOP

By Eric Pianin

It was a bumpy trail, but Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) emerged Tuesday night as the new ringmaster of the Senate. As millions of voters disgruntled with President Obama and the Democrats turned to the...
Obama and the Dems’ Racial Politics—a Desperate Election Play

By Liz Peek

At the end, President Obama campaigned almost exclusively to turn out black voters. Polling in mid-October showed Obama holding an 85 percent approval rating among blacks , compared to 34 percent...

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