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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 and Congress Playing High-Stakes Poker over War Funding

By Eric Pianin and Martin Matishak

In a move steeped in election year politics and growing concern about upheaval and warfare in the Middle East, many Senate Democrats joined with their Republican colleague to pass a $612 billion...
For Today’s Mass Killers, It’s Mortal Kombat Come to Life

By Liz Peek

It’s time President Obama took a bite out of Hollywood. While he spoke movingly last week about the shootings at Umpqua Community College and chastised Congress for failing to enact stricter gun...
Trump’s Next Target: Counterfeit Campaign Merchandise

By Aimee Picchi, The Fiscal Times

Republican presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump might appreciate a hard-working entrepreneur, but apparently that doesn’t extend to businesses selling Trump-related knockoffs. Trump’s...
Pacific Trade Deal’s Long Journey Is Just Beginning

By Rob Garver

The news that negotiators from 11 Pacific countries, including the U.S., have completed negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that will touch some 40 percent of the world’s...
Struggling Clinton Now Trails Trump, Bush and Fiorina in Iowa Matchups

By Eric Pianin

For months now, Hillary Rodham Clinton has struggled to fend off an aggressive challenge by Sen. Bernie Sanders among Democratic voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and other crucial early battleground...

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