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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.

Four Trillion Reasons to Throw the Bums Out

By Edward Morrissey

To say that the Republican primary fight overshadowed the stunning news of America’s first four-trillion-dollar budget almost trips over the point. The rhetoric leading up to the New Hampshire...
Obama Unveils Record $4.1 Trillion Budget as Congress Gears Up for a Fight

By Eric Pianin

With little political capital remaining on Capitol Hill, President Obama on Tuesday unveiled the final budget proposal of his administration – a largely aspirational, record $4.1 trillion plan...
The Glaring Problem With Obama’s $10-a-Barrel Tax on Oil

By Rob Garver

Presidential budget requests are always more political documents than real legislative proposals, typically containing items that everybody involved knows will never find their way into law. However...
How Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Both Won the Iowa Caucuses

By Martin Matishak and Eric Pianin

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton eked out a victory at Monday night's Democratic Iowa caucuses over Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, narrowly averting what might have been a political...
Democrats’ Big Dilemma: Whether or Not to Stick with Obama

By Eric Pianin

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden had some advice for House Democrats gathered in Baltimore for a retreat late last week: If their party had hopes to retain control of the White House and...

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