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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.

With Fractured GOP, Election May Be Obama's to Lose

By Eric Pianin and Merrill Goozner

While squabbling Republican presidential candidates seem bent on destroying their prospects for winning back the White House this fall, President Obama is being helped by a deluge of good economic...
Obama Plans $1.2T Debt Limit Hike

By Matt Spetalnick and Aruna Viswanatha, Reuters

President Barack Obama formally notified Congress on Thursday that he plans a $1.2 trillion increase in the U.S. debt limit, setting the stage for Republicans to level election-year charges that...
Ron Paul in N.H.: I’m ‘Dangerous to Status Quo’

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

In a rousing speech to his supporters after placing second to Mitt Romney in the N.H. primary on Tuesday night, Ron Paul talked about the case for freedom, free markets, and “a sensible foreign...
Romney Projected Winner in N.H.

By Philip Rucker and David Nakamura, The Washington Post

Mitt Romney was projected as the winner of New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press, giving the former Massachusetts governor a sweep of the first...
Jack Lew: Budget Expert Named New Chief of Staff

By Eric Pianin

On Monday afternoon President Obama named budget director Jacob “Jack” Lew as his new White House Chief of Staff after Bill Daley stepped down after only one year in the post. Obama made the...

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