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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.

Obama May Tackle the 800 Pound Gorilla—Tax Reform

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

By embracing tax reform, President Obama opened the door to a long and contentious debate over the cumbersome and loophole-ridden U.S. tax code. Will he take the risk just as the 2012 president...
Tax Deal Puts Economy between a Rock and a Hard Place

By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

Since announcing his tax cut agreement with Republican leaders on a deal that would prevent a large tax increase on Jan. 1, Barack Obama has been heavily attacked by those on both the right and the...
Betrayed! Duped! Democrats Steamed at Spineless Obama

By Eric Pianin

Liberal Democrats are in near revolt over the deal President Obama negotiated with Republicans for extending tax cuts scheduled to expire at the end of the year, including those for the wealthiest...
Obama’s Re-election Mandate: Fix Our Failing Schools

By Liz Peek

History will tell whether President Obama’s compromise on the Bush-era tax cuts was the beginning of his political rebound or yet another step on his slippery slide to being a one-term president...
Mounting Concern about Economy Drove Tax Deal

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

Mounting concern about a stalling economy led to a major tax deal between President Obama and GOP leaders, but liberal Democrats and deficit hawks aren’t happy with the agreement.

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