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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 Hoped to Sway Opinion Abroad and He Flunked

By David Francis

Despite his popularity here, Obama’s message on Syria is falling on deaf ears, while French President François Hollande is paying a steep price for supporting the United States.
McCain Skewers Obama for Ignoring the Syrian Rebels

By Eric Pianin

Sen. John McCain’s morning-after assessment of President Obama’s nationally televised speech Wednesday night on the Syrian crisis was harsh. The leading Republican voice on defense and foreign policy...
Obama at War with His Own Argument over Syria

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

President Obama’s case for punishing Syria for the use of chemical weapons is at war with itself. Supporters will applaud the nuanced reasoning in his prime time White House address on Tuesday night...
Would You Buy a Used Car from Putin the ‘Peacenik'?

By Eric Pianin

Lawmakers are pondering the unthinkable now: Trusting Vladimir Putin. Just a few weeks ago, the surly Russian president was a Super Bowl ring-stealing kleptocrat who offered safe haven to National...
VIDEO: Obama Says He Will Keep Pressure on Syria

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

President Obama on Tuesday night implored the American public to tell Congress to keep pressure on Syria over its chemical weapons, while the United States seeks a diplomatic alternative to taking...

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