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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.

Trump and Rubio Gang Up on Ted Cruz

By Rob Garver

As resident mean girl of the Republican primary field, Donald Trump has never been reluctant to poke and prod at his opponents’ weak spots, and when he’s been able to find one that resonates with the...
Here’s the Compliment Trump Gave the Pope After Being Slammed on Immigration

By Martin Matishak

Donald Trump participated in his major first town hall event on Thursday night. And he loved every strange minute of it. Forced to abandon his preferred formats of frenzied campaign rallies and acid-...
Clinton Sharply Challenges Sanders’s Immigration Credentials in Nevada

By Eric Pianin

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sharply challenged Sen. Bernie Sanders’s credentials as an advocate for immigration reform Thursday night as the two rivals for the Democratic...
Trump and Cruz Strike a New Low In Presidential Politics

By Rob Garver

On Wednesday, the clash between Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz devolved into the sort of thing one would expect from a race for 7th grade class president if...
Abortion, Obamacare, Affirmative Action: Crucial Cases Before the Supremes

By Robert Barnes, The Washington Post

The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia casts a cloud of uncertainty over a Supreme Court term filled with some of the most controversial issues facing the nation: abortion, affirmative...

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