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Don't change the State Department's mission statement

As former Secretary of State Colin Powell said, "Our interests, in the end, rest on our values. I am concerned because the country seems to be veering away from the values that are so foundational for us."...  Read more

Republicans dismayed by Trump's behavior in Charlottesville aftermath

White House aides and congressional Republicans are struggling to find their footing after President Trump's frenetic response to racial violence in Charlottesville, Va. this week plunged his administration into new depths of chaos...  Read more

Trump Now Campaigning Against Jeff Flake and the GOP Senate Majority

For the first time, Donald Trump has inserted himself into a 2018 Republican primary against an incumbent. The president tweeted Thursday morning that it was “great” to see Trump nemesis Jeff Flake of Arizona get a Republican challenger...  Read more

Trump and Charlottesville threaten to upend Virginia governor's race

Gillespie announced that he opposed removing the statues...  Read more

Trump Disbands Business Advisory Council as CEOs Flee

One day after insisting that he had a list of CEOs to replace anyone who resigned from the White House business advisory council, the forum disbands itself...  Read more

Partnerships are paving a new path for Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico is rapidly becoming the most competitive jurisdiction within the United States...  Read more

CFPB's new federal rule on payday lending expected soon

Payday industry officials and consumer advocates expect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, headed by Director Richard Cordray, to finalize sweeping new regulations on payday loans in the next few weeks...  Read more

No, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson aren't next

Half the press greeted this as an absurd question or suggestion...  Read more

Luther Strange, Roy Moore, Advance in the Alabama Republican Primary

President Trump played a surprisingly small role in the Republican primary for the Alabama Senate seat formerly held by Jeff Sessions...  Read more

Trump and the 'Very Fine People' Who March with Neo-Nazis

Trying to understand the president's strange and unsettling press conference...  Read more

Congress can't afford to go halfway on tax reform

As policymakers craft legislation, permanence should also be front and center...  Read more

Let Mexico keep buying American gas

America's new standing as an energy-exporting powerhouse should change the way Trump and others think about NAFTA...  Read more

Trump's failure after Charlottesville

There is no gray area in America's ongoing struggle to protect freedom from its adversaries; whether they come in the form of Vladimir Putin or David Duke...  Read more

Congress needs to repeal the medical device tax

The Senate's inability to move forward on healthcare reform left behind one key provision that made sense both as sound economic policy and good health policy - namely, repeal of the innovation-crushing and jobs-killing medical device excise tax...  Read more

Alabama Senate race is a big test for Mitch McConnell

Surveys project that Strange and Moore will advance to in a late September runoff...  Read more

Activists Use Online Sleuthing to Identify Violent White Supremacists in Charlottesviile

As a result, one man has lost his job and another has been disowned by his family. What happens if someone is misidentified?...  Read more

Bad Things Were Bound to Happen in Charlottesviile

The organizers claimed the planned a peaceful gathering, then marched across a college campus with torches...  Read more

Will Trump Finally End the Bannon-Kushner War?

Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner have been fighting for months. Is Trump finally ready to fire Bannon?  Read more