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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...

Don’t Count on a Real Tax Cut If Romney Is Elected

By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times

Don’t automatically hold Mitt Romney to his promise of trimming income tax rates for everyone by 20 percent, one of the few specifics and defining principles in his plan for jumpstarting the sluggish...
America's Hidden Unemployed: Campaign Challenge

By Lucia Mutikani, Reuters

Economists, analyzing government data, estimate about 4 million fewer people are in the labor force than in December 2007, primarily due to a lack of jobs rather than the normal aging of America's...
Battle for the White House: Ohio Can Call It

By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times

Ohio just might be the definitive battleground state, with an economic recovery that both vindicates President Obama’s record and justifies Mitt Romney’s claim that massive stimulus spending never...
U.S. China Policy: Incoherent and Dangerous

By Patrick Smith

The cement is hardly dry on America’s new policy to forge new Asia-Pacific alliances , and already the post–Iraq endeavor is coming across as a collection of incoherent contradictions. Consider: *We...
Republicans Brace for Four More Years of Obama

By Eric Pianin

As President Obama strengthens his lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney, for the first time some Capitol Hill Republican veterans are saying that the winner of the race will be able to claim a...

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