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Mitch McConnell Goes to the Mattresses for Trump's Judicial Nominees

The Senate majority leader takes charge of the confirmation process...  Read more

Trump Announces He Will Fix Health Care By Himself

Plus, Rex Tillerson's IQ test and the immigration negotiation continues...  Read more

Trump tax reform outline needs fine-tuning to spare the middle class

Last week, more details on the Trump tax plan were released. The blueprint, which the "Big Six" tax reform panel is still amending, is excellent...  Read more

UK launches last-minute bid to change Trump's mind on Iran nuclear deal

British Prime Minister Theresa May and her team appealed to President Trump in a 11th hour bid to convince him not to take a step away from the Iran nuclear deal, according to United Kingdom officials...  Read more

Mitch McConnell prevents donor revolt, but for how long?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is holding off a revolt by his loyal campaign contributors for now, even as other donors angry about Republican failures in Congress reject pleas for cash to support the party's 2018 campaign...  Read more

Media awkwardly cope with Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment charges

Last week's revelation that Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein has a history of sexual harassment has left many in the media in an awkward position...  Read more

Corker's Convictions

A Trump enabler now thinks he's the leader of the opposition...  Read more

7 unexpected requests on Trump's immigration reform wish list

These are some of the lesser-known ideas to crack down on illegal immigration...  Read more

Facing down America's fentanyl epidemic

We need to be taking steps to eliminate illegal fentanyl from our communities, not providing new avenues for those who want to see just the opposite happen...  Read more

When it comes to tax reform, keep it simple, Congress

When the Internal Revenue Code was first created in 1913, the entire text of the Sixteenth Amendment and the Revenue Act totaled a mere 27 pages...  Read more

Supreme Court takes up warrantless cellphone searches

Under current law, the federal government isn't required to obtain a warrant to get cell phone location information under what's known as the "third-party doctrine," derived from two Supreme Court decisions from the 1970s...  Read more

Is Trump still the same guy who won in November?

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich likes to say that there are two Donald Trumps. "I've said this publicly, there's a big Trump and a little Trump," Gingrich said on ABC's "This Week" before last year's election...  Read more

Trump and the Republican Congress let business groups down

Business is particularly worried that the Trump administration has pursued changes to the NAFTA's investor-state dispute settlement system, including allowing countries to opt-out...  Read more

The Human Stain: Why the Harvey Weinstein Story Is Worse Than You Think

It goes much deeper than one big creep...  Read more

Corker and Trump Breakup

Bob Corker wasn't always so "concerned" about Donald Trump...  Read more

Both parties' extremists seem determined to lose the next elections

One might get the impression that large segments of both parties are determined to lose the next congressional and presidential elections. And that both deserve to...  Read more

Trump Not Expected to Certify Iranian Compliance with the Nuclear Deal

Move would give Congress 60 days to reimpose nuclear-related sanctions on the Islamic republic...  Read more

The accounting fraud behind the debt ceiling

For all the stories we saw about Trump's budget deal, very few hinted at the dishonest accounting tricks behind the granite façade of the Treasury Department...  Read more