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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.

The Romney Campaign Implodes after Libya

By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

As I discussed last week , I think Barack Obama will win the election easily. Now, with Mitt’s Romney’s gross miscalculation in politicizing the Libyan massacre, thereby failing the 3 :00 am phone...
Tax Reform: Mortgage Deduction Is a Non-Starter

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

With home prices and sales finally beginning to recover from the worst housing collapse in U.S. history, it would be asking for trouble to start tinkering with what every economist agrees is a major...
Tackling the Holy Grail of Tax Reform: Loopholes

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

The two political parties and their presidential standard bearers are moving inexorably toward an acrimonious public debate next month over how to pay for tax reform, which will be major issue during...
Top 10 Tax Breaks that May Be Eliminated

By Eric Pianin

Which tax breaks would you eliminate? Here are the top ten in terms of cost, including the mortgage deduction, tax-free health insurance, and capital gains and dividends, which are taxed at low rates.
Chicago Teachers’ Strike: Last Straw for Voters?

By Edward Morrissey

Those who followed the political war in Wisconsin that erupted in February 2011 with a public-employee union reform bill and ended with the unsuccessful attempt to recall Governor Scott Walker might...

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