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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.

Boehner to Dems: We Won’t Blink First on Debt Deal

By Eric Pianin

A year after the debt ceiling debacle, when the U.S. almost defaulted on the country’s debt, House Speaker John Boehner demanded in a speech at a fiscal summit that the next increase in the Treasury’...
Geithner: J.P.Morgan Loss Strengthens Fin-Reg Bill

By Eric Pianin

reasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told a conference today on fiscal issues that the J.P. Morgan Chase debacle in which traders lost more than $2 billion in waging financial bets would strengthen the...
The ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Looms Over Taxes and Spending

By Eric Pianin

Congress is facing an extraordinary raft of spending and tax decisions by the end of the year that could have a profound impact on Americans reliant on government aid and the economic recovery. Fed...
Congress May Toss the Economy over the Fiscal Cliff

By Eric Pianin

Unless the badly divided Congress and President Obama can agree on a slew of confounding budget and tax issues in the run up to a crucial presidential and congressional fall election, a fragile...
Guess Who's Funding the Super PACs?

By MARCUS STERN and KRISTINA COOKE and ALEXANDER COHEN, Reuters

Ever since the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case paved the way for Super PACS, they have been a legitimate new tactic for political campaigns. As far as can be determined,...

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