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Strong Woman Writes Memoir on the Burdens of Leadership

Fortunately, 'The Education of Moskowitz' is a worthy and engaging read...  Read more

Congress, fix and pass this Obamacare replacement

It should be axiomatic among Republicans that Obamacare must be repealed and replaced during the current Congress...  Read more

Republicans watching to see how much Trump's endorsement worth in Alabama Senate race

Strange has trailed Roy Moore in public opinion polls, and many of Trump's usual allies are working feverishly against him to elect the upstart challenger...  Read more

Price gouging has its purpose

Amid all the news about Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and now Maria, the issue of price gouging arose as people flocked to gas stations and supermarkets to stockpile supplies...  Read more

The Mueller Investigation Closes in on Manafort

Emails show Trump's former campaign manager asking the Russians how to "get whole."...  Read more

Republicans far apart on tax strategy week before release of outline

GOP lawmakers not only don't have consensus on the content of a tax plan, they also haven't agreed on how to go about legislating one...  Read more

Was Donald Trump's Big Speech to the United Nations a Success?

President Trump’s first address to the United Nations General Assembly was a bit of a hodge-podge...  Read more

Trump leaves himself little room for Iran deal recertification

After using the most high-profile foreign policy speech of his presidency to call the Iran nuclear deal "an embarrassment to the United States," President Trump could find recertifying it even more difficult than its opponents had already promised to make it...  Read more

How will gerrymandering measure up before the Supreme Court?

In less than a month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Gill v. Whitford, a politically charged gerrymandering case, and rule on whether Wisconsin's State Assembly map was intentionally drawn to favor one party over another...  Read more

Wiretapped calls between Trump and Paul Manafort would have difficult road to disclosure

If President Trump spoke with Paul Manafort while his former campaign manager was being wiretapped, experts say there's no quick legal route to disclose the existence or content of intercepted calls...  Read more

Hurricane Maria rips into Caribbean and could sling Jose toward the US East Coast

Hurricane Maria made landfall Monday evening as an "extremely dangerous" Category 5 storm on the island of Dominica and is expected wreak devastation across the Caribbean over the next couple of days...  Read more

Nine years after the crisis, Fannie and Freddie remain unfixed

The U.S. economy still remains susceptible to a pair of major drivers behind that crisis: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...  Read more

Investigators Told Manafort They Planned to Indict

The Mueller investigation is heating up...  Read more

The Nuclear Deal Is Only Half of It

The Trump White House has yet to roll out its much-anticipated, comprehensive, government-wide Iran policy review, but administration principals have met over the last few weeks to iron out details regarding the nuclear deal with Iran...  Read more

The Fake News War on McMaster

Ever since John Kelly was tapped as White House chief of staff, right-wing news outlets have been publishing articles making harsh allegations about Donald Trump’s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster...  Read more

Elaine Chao: Expect an infrastructure package this fall

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is used to sharing the stage with presidents, dignitaries, and experts when she attends an event...  Read more

What's the Story?

Liberals have one; conservatives need one...  Read more

Democrats face tough choice in Dream Act deal

Democrats, not Republicans, may face the toughest choice over what they are willing to accept as lawmakers begin weighing tradeoffs to pass "Dream Act" legislation protecting more than than 800,000 young illegal immigrants...  Read more