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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.

Defense Budget Fight: Obama Won’t Back Down on Veto Threat

By Eric Pianin

The fight between President Obama and GOP lawmakers over defense funding is boiling over as Congress returns to work this week. Unless a compromise can be worked out soon, the political conflict...
Sanders Showing Some Mojo as He Moves Up on Clinton in Iowa

By Eric Pianin

With the unkempt look of a college professor and his relentless attacks on Wall Street and the country’s wealthy elite, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has been drawing huge crowds across the country...
Obama’s Cyber Security Failure Creates a Greater Threat than ISIS

By Liz Peek

This is what will happen: an airplane will fall out of the sky, a power plant will explode, and a freight train will run amok. People will die, and cyberterrorists will take credit for the mayhem...
New Concerns That Obama Will Cut a Bad Deal with Iran

By Eric Pianin

With growing indications that the final round of talks in Vienna on an Iranian nuclear deal will exceed Tuesday’s official deadline, U.S. and Iranian negotiators are trying to gauge whether an...
Obama’s Moving Eulogy for Slain South Carolina Pastor

By Jacqueline Leo

After a week that shifted the political goal posts towards his progressive agenda, President Obama gave one of his most critically acclaimed speeches as he eulogized the Rev. Clementa Pinckney who...

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