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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.

Conflicts of Interest With Trump’s Businesses Are Already Occurring

By Rob Garver

Conflicts of interest in a Trump administration, experts warn, will be of “unprecedented magnitude” say experts. At this stage in the transition, the message from team Trump appears to be: “Trust us.”
As AG, Sessions Could Radically Influence Immigration Enforcement

By Rob Garver

President-elect Donald Trump ran for election on a platform built in large part on animus toward undocumented immigrants Now he is giving one of the most ardent anti-illegal immigration voices in the...
Trump’s Coming Surprise: 40 Republicans Could Stop Him Cold

By Eric Pianin

From the very beginning of his campaign for president, Donald Trump made it clear that he thought House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin was “weak and “feckless.” He even shot a silver bullet through...
The Most Powerful Woman on Team Trump (Hint: It’s Not Ivanka)

By Ciro Scotti

The most powerful woman on Donald Trump’s team is not daughter Ivanka, wife Melania or intrepid spokesperson Kellyanne Conway. Instead, at least in these early days as a Trump administration takes...
Rudy Giuliani, Diplomat? Objections Grow to Trump’s Most Loyal Supporter

By Rob Garver

As people close to the Donald Trump transition team continue to report that former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is the leading candidate to be secretary of state in a Trump administration,...

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