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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 Deficit: How a Whiff of Compromise Was Buried

By Jennifer Depaul and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times

The Federal deficit was the talk of the towns—both New York and Washington as different factions struggled to convince, cajole and even compromise on the thorny issues driving the nation’s debt.
How Killing bin Laden Helped Lower the Deficit

By Maureen Mackey and Jacqueline Leo, The Fiscal Times

If we captured bin Laden instead of killing him, the cost would have been yet another nail in the federal deficit.
After bin Laden—Back to the Budget Busting Talks

By John Greenwald, The Fiscal Times

What’s sharply revealed in the budget and deficit battles today is much more than fiscal plans and political rhetoric, according to a Princeton historian and author of a new book, Age of Fracture. It...
Drilling Down to the Truth about Rising Oil Prices

By John Berry, The Fiscal Times

Drivers are furious with the skyrocketing cost of gasoline, probably the most closely watched price of any in our car-centric society. Some Republicans are trying to focus that anger on President...
Obama Honors Victims of 9/11

By PERRY BACON JR., The Washington Post

President Obama, in New York City Thursday to mark the U.S. killing of Sept. 11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden, told a group of firefighters the successful raid showed that, “when we say we will never...

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