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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.

White House Cranks Up Its Syria Strike Campaign

By Roberta Rampton and JUSTYNA PAWLAK, Reuters

President Barack Obama urged Americans on Saturday to back him in launching an attack on Syria , as diplomatic pressure grew on the United States to wait for a U.N. report expected in a week's time...
Syria Vote Could Be Obama's Worst Nightmare

By Brett Logiurato, The Business Insider

It has been a week since President Barack Obama made the decision to take his plans for military action in Syria to a vote in Congress . And in that week, Congress has seemingly only progressed...
Voters to Lawmakers: ‘Don’t Attack Syria’

By Eric Pianin and Brianna Ehley

As President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and scores of senior administration officials waged a full-court press to try to win congressional support next week for a joint resolution...
Why Everyone is Freaking Out About the Jobs Report

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

Sometimes, the unemployment rate leads you astray. The Friday jobs report looks decent—payrolls increased by 169,000 in August, while the unemployment rate dropped by a tenth of a percentage point to...
Syria: Is Putin Playing Russian Roulette with Obama?

By David Francis

Vladimir Putin seems to be itching for a fight with the United States. If he starts one, he’ll lose, and lose badly.

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