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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.

Is Syria Exposing the GOP’s Widening Fault Lines?

By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

The debate over bombing Syria has exposed a deep fault line among Republicans in Congress, with the strong possibility that a majority of them will vote against it in both the House and Senate. But...
The Syrian Crisis Hits a Heartbreaking Milestone

By Keith Wagstaff, TheWeek.com

Every day the president spends trying to rally support in Congress for a military strike against Syria, an average of 5,000 refugees will flee the country.
Obama’s War in Syria: Misguided and Doomed to Fail

By Edward Morrissey

Congress returns this week, not to wrestle with budget resolutions and debt ceilings as expected, but to decide whether to authorize a war with Syria. That came as a surprise last week as Senators...
5 Reasons to Pore Over Friday’s Mega Jobs Report

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

The jobs report usually gets oversold. But the August jobs report – out tomorrow – might finally live up to the hype. This is the last jobs report out before Federal Reserve officials meet on Sept...
Obama's Six Mistakes Damage U.S. Foreign Policy

By David Francis

Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel are asking lawmakers today to trust the White House when it says that pending operations in Syria would be limited to air strikes and...

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