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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.

Even the Pope Wants to Stop ISIS; Shouldn’t Obama?

By Patrick Smith

To bomb or not to bomb? That is the debate as we watch the extremist militants of ISIS rampage through Syria and Iraq with the intent of establishing a caliphate that erases the borders between the...
Obama Hammered on Ukraine, ISIS Delays

By Rob Garver

At a time when bipartisan agreement is rare in Washington, lawmakers of both parties seemed to coalesce around one issue this weekend: criticizing President Obama for not taking action on the dual...
Feinstein Takes Obama to Task for Caution on ISIS

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

President Obama is taking his time developing a strategy for dealing with the growing threat posed by ISIS – the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – even as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Sens. John...
Cameron on ISIS: Tougher Talk But Still No Strategy

By Rob Garver and Eric Pianin

David Cameron on Friday gave a much better speech on the threat of ISIS than Barack Obama did the day before. But that doesn’t mean he has any more of a strategy than the U.S. does for how to deal...
A Radical Way for Ukraine to Fight and Defeat Russia

By Andrew L. Peek, The Fiscal Times

The image of Russian tanks advancing through southeastern Ukraine should be deeply embarrassing to Americans. Not because Ukraine is of such vital national interest; not because the fate of liberty...

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