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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.

More Americans Favor Border Security over Amnesty

By Eric Pianin

Americans’ views on immigration reform are beginning to harden, with more people now in favor of tightening border security rather than providing many of the 11 million illegal immigrants with a...
Obama Remains a Big Drag on Democrats’ Prospects

By Eric Pianin

Congressional Republicans hold a four-point advantage over Democrats in a generic campaign matchup just two months before the November election, with President Obama’s lowly approval rating...
Obama Sharpens Tone Against ISIS: We Will ‘Destroy’ It

By Katie Zezima, The Washington Post

TALLINN, Estonia - President Obama warned the killers of American journalist Steven J. Sotloff on Wednesday that their atrocities only served to galvanize American resolve to punish and dismantle the...
$3.3 Billion—A Drop in the Pentagon’s Afghan Waste Bucket

By Jacqueline Leo

We’ve known from the start that a war in Afghanistan meant losing taxpayer money to corrupt officials. In March of 2013, TFT reported that the U.S. had spent nearly $100 billion to rebuild...
Objections to Fiscal Policy are Groundless—It Works

By Mark Thoma

One of the more controversial policies instituted in an attempt to stimulate the economy out of the Great Recession was the $816.3 billion fiscal stimulus package enacted just after Obama took office...

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