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Trump Lashes Out, Vows to Appeal Guilty Verdict

By Yuval Rosenberg

Donald Trump today vowed to appeal his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made to silence an adult film star’s story about a sexual encounter...
After the Capitol Attack: What Happens Next

By Yuval Rosenberg

The fallout from Wednesday’s chaos at the Capitol continued Thursday — and will likely be felt for some time. Here are the top developments: Congress certifies election, Trump says he will leave:...
How Do We Respond to the Trump Insurrection?

By Yuval Rosenberg

Today, January 6, 2021, is a date which will live in infamy, to borrow President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s words after Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941. Only today’s horrifying attack on American...
Of Four Options Facing Trump in Qatar, Only One Is the Right Choice

By Patrick Smith

Three weeks after President Trump’s closely watched meeting with Arab leaders during his visit to Saudi Arabia, the No.1 question for Trump’s foreign policy team is how to navigate in a region that...
How the Comey Hearing Made America Great Again

By Ciro Scotti

That sound you’ve been hearing for almost five months is the world laughing at America as the rubes from New York bumble around Washington smashing the fine china of governance in a spectacle of...

The Only Person Who Can Bring Down Trump Is Sitting in the Oval Office

By Edward Morrissey

Could a wealthy businessman managing his own company do better operating the federal government than a politician? The experiment has just begun, but it’s already apparent that the type of...
The Comey Firing Proves We Need Two Special Counsels, Not One

By Edward Morrissey

James Comey finds himself out of a job unexpectedly – and perhaps not unreasonably. The timing of his exit and the confusion over the status of the investigation into alleged Russian interference in...
Democrats, Now the Party of No, Stonewall Trump at Their Peril

By Liz Peek

As Democrats have comfortably settled into their new role as the Party of No, some say the formerly obstructionist Republicans are getting their just desserts. But there is one stark difference...
Trump's Troubling Embrace of Anti-Democratic Leaders and Policies

By Rob Garver

From the earliest days of his presidential campaign, there has been an air of authoritarianism around the man who now occupies the Oval Office. But over the past few weeks, as Donald Trump approached...
These Big, Expensive Giveaways to Illegal Immigrants Will Backfire on Liberals

By Liz Peek

As Trump ramps up border security, liberal Democrats vow ever-greater resistance. Blue states are increasingly adopting policies that bolster their pro-immigrant bona fides, but that may ultimately...

Someone Should Tell Obama It’s Still the Economy

By Edward Morrissey

Employer-provided birth control. Binders full of women. Mitt Romney’s tax returns. All of the issues that had attracted so much attention in 2012 belied the fact that the US economy had been...
Why the GOP Retreated on the Debt Ceiling

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

Sitting in a Capitol Hill basement on Wednesday, Republican congressional aides heard a lunchtime presentation about why their bosses were wise to back down on the debt limit. The economist walking...
Your Guide to Obama’s and Senate’s Immigration Plans

By Eric Pianin and Josh Boak

President Obama on Tuesday unveiled his proposals for overhauling the nation’s immigration laws and for the first time providing a pathway to citizenship for more than 11 million undocumented workers...
Pentagon Sent to Budget Boot Camp to Cut 8 Percent

By David Francis

With deep sequestration cuts coming, the Pentagon faces a new reality where the endless supply of cash is no more.
How Obama’s Union Pandering Hobbles Export Trade

By Liz Peek

Currency wars may have consumed the financial gnomes gathered for the World Economic Forum in Davos this past weekend but that doesn’t keep Americans up at night. Americans’ economic and fiscal...

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