Donald Trump may be sleep-deprived, but he still knows how to manipulate the news cycle. Since his return from his embarrassing and counterproductive overseas trip, Trump has…
Category: national
Turn to page 34 of Donald Trump’s budget and you will see that while Il Duce wants to spend $598 billion less on keeping Americans healthy,…
Foreign policy giant Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski died yesterday. When I got my first full-time debate coaching gig, the policy debate topic was Russia. I instructed my…
The Congressional Budget Office published its initial analysis of the recklessly passed House Republican health insurance reform bill this week. The CBO confirms the read of almost…
The federal government appears to be having the same trouble with sluggish tax revenues that South Dakota is having. On Wednesday, super-rich Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin…
Did you hear the one about the Presidential budget team who couldn’t do arithmetic? Not if you read the Republican blogs. While Donald Trump mutters…
When I first heard the news about Montana’s Republican candidate for U.S. House, Greg Gianforte, assaulting U.K. Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs in his campaign office, I…
I suppose I can’t get too excited about Donald Trump’s base-whumping declaration to the Muslim princes and potentates yesterday that there is no war of…
Benjamin Wittes, principal source of yesterday’s NYT story about James Comey’s efforts to keep the FBI clear of Donald Trump’s bald attempts at influence, uses his Lawfare blog to share another…
One of the key components of the Republican health care bill (CBO score coming next week!) is funding for high-risk pools in states that choose…