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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.

Russia to Obama: Put Up or Shut Up About Hacking the Election

By Rob Garver

In an interview with National Public Radio on Thursday, President Obama promised that the United States would retaliate for what intelligence officials describe as a Russia-backed computer hacking...
Obama Final Economic Report Adds Veiled Digs at Trump

By Rob Garver

With his final day in office barely a month away, President Obama and the members of his administration are, understandably, in legacy-burnishing mode, as evidenced by the release on Thursday of the...
Why the Deep Divisions Inside Trump Tower May Not Be Such a Bad Thing

By Ciro Scotti

Trump Tower is starting to seem like the Trump Tower of Babel. But there are a couple of ways of looking at the collision of voices and views that appears to be taking place within the glitzy Fifth...
Trump’s Top 3 Priorities: Obamacare Repeal, Tax Cuts, More Tax Cuts

By Rob Garver

Incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, in a radio interview Wednesday, laid out the top priorities Donald Trump will bring with him when he takes office as president next month: First...
Trump Gets a Taste of What’s to Come If He Refuses to Exit His Businesses

By Rob Garver

Democrats were clear in a letter Tuesday about the sort of criticism Trump will come under if he takes the Oval Office next month and starts cutting deals that could be seen as beneficial to his own...

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