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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.

The Bad Election of 2016 Gets Even Worse

By Jackie Leo, The Fiscal Times

Today I heard one of the smartest people I know say that in the 2016 election we’re becoming more like Europe, and “class” is motivating voters more than anything else. What Council on Foreign...
Trump and Sanders Are Right: Obama’s Trade Deal Is a Dud

By David Dayen

To the extent that Donald Trump has any definable public policy positions, the main one is that middle-class Americans have been battered by trade policies written to favor other countries at our...
How Registering Women for the Draft Could Save the Government Millions

By Rob Garver

The CBO found that in an oddly backhanded way, requiring women to register for the draft the same way that men do would actually save the government tens of millions of dollars in the years ahead.
Obama’s Latest Iran Problem Won’t Go Away Any Time Soon

By Martin Matishak

House Republicans are seizing on a controversial article about a White House aide as an opportunity to re-ignite debate over last year’s controversial Iran nuclear deal and, possibly, politically...
Experts Warn Trump and Clinton of a Big Threat to the Economy

By Eric Pianin

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are so focused on winning the presidential election this fall that budgetary navel gazing is pretty low on their priority list. While Trump, Clinton and Sen. Bernie...

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