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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’s Next Tax: Wealthy Can Kiss Deductions Goodbye

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

Should Washington overcome its gridlock, America's next tax hike will likely burst through the back door. It won't be nearly as simple as the rate increase in this month's fiscal cliff deal...
In Gun Battle, NYPD Blue Tests a New Technology

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly discusses yet another new technology that has the potential to combat gun violence – but it’s not without its privacy concerns. His remarks on "Face the Nation" come...
Geithner’s Parting Advice: ‘No Peacocks, Jerks or Whiners’

By Eric Pianin

Timothy Geithner leaves office today after four momentous and gut-wrenching years at the helm of the Treasury as the nation teetered on the brink of economic Armageddon. The nation’s 75th Secretary...
Why Government Spending Is Not Out of Control

By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

It is a standard talking point of Republicans and deficit hawks of all political stripes that federal spending is out of control; that major surgery is needed, especially on entitlement programs such...
Obama's New Cabinet Bashed by Identity Politics

By Eric Pianin

As he begins his second term, President Obama is assembling a new cabinet that may be most remarkable for how unremarkable it looks. He appears to be filling the top posts with seasoned white male...

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