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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.

Big Trouble for Coastal Florida as Antarctic Ice Shelf Splits

By Eric Pianin

At about the same time President Trump announced last month that he was taking the U.S. out of the Paris climate change accord, a vast expanse of ice roughly the size of Delaware was threatening to...
Trump Has Forgotten a Major Lesson From the Declaration of Independence

By David Dayen

Most people remember the causes of revolution as taxation without representation, or police-state occupation of Boston and elsewhere by British officers stationed among their subjects. But preventing...
Why Trump’s Rollback of Clean Air Rules Could Cost Taxpayers Billions

By Eric Pianin

President Trump frequently touts what he sees as the economic benefits of eliminating Obama-era clean air regulations to revive the struggling coal industry and put more miners back to work. Trump is...
How Long Until Trump’s Self-Dealing Becomes Our New Normal?

By Rob Garver

President Trump held a $10 million fundraiser at his own private hotel. This is not normal. But the danger is that, through sheer repetition and the onset of outrage fatigue, it eventually will be.
Trump Revives a Radioactive Plan for Storing Nuclear Waste

By Eric Pianin

Seven years ago, President Barack Obama, urged by then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid drove a stake through the heart of a controversial and costly plan

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