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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.

Deals Close on Transportation, Student Loan Rates

By Reuters

U.S. congressional negotiators neared a pair of election-year deals on Tuesday, one for a massive job-creating transportation bill, the other to prevent a doubling of student-loan interest rates,...
Veepstakes: ‘Plain’ Pawlenty in Top Tier for Ticket

By Eric Pianin and Maureen Mackey

Last summer, former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty looked washed up after he dropped out of the GOP presidential campaign after a poor showing in the Iowa straw poll. But his months of loyal support...
Reid Dismisses Pentagon’s Threats of Layoffs

By Eric Pianin

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., appears unmoved by defense industry warnings of massive layoffs if Congress and the White House allow $500 billion or more of automatic cuts in Pentagon...
Conservative Voters Rail at Obama...and the GOP

By Edmund Andrews, The Fiscal Times

Two years ago, Zawistowski was a political outsider. Today, he is president of the Ohio Liberty Coalition, a statewide tea-party group, and warns that Obama would carry out a massive government...
Senate Played a Shell Game with New Farm Bill

By Eric Pianin

Senate Democrats and Republicans say they achieved significant bipartisan reforms with passage of a major farm bill they approved on Thursday. While the Senate voted to do away with costly direct...

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