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Mnuchin Warns Congress on Debt Ceiling

As tension continues to mount on Capitol Hill, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned several Congressional leaders on Wednesday that America would face the debt ceiling next week...  Read more

The power of women

A woman did not finally win the White House in November, but other women fill posts in which they are important influences in American politics...  Read more

Trump calls Planned Parenthood's bluff

Each time Congress debates whether to defund Planned Parenthood, the inevitable refrain from the group's supporters is that the money it receives from taxpayers doesn't pay for abortions and that, besides, abortion makes up just 3 percent of its services...  Read more

Trump, Xi to meet at Mar-a-Lago next month

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet next month at Trump's Florida club in their first face-to-face meeting since Trump took the White House...  Read more

CPB needs a breath of fresh air from federal funding

Today, this American life includes a daunting national debt...  Read more

Strong jobs report beats expectations: 237,000 jobs, unemployment 4.7%

The U.S. economy gained 235,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 4.7 percent in February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday in a highly reassuring jobs report...  Read more

Paul Ryan Explains How Obamacare Incentivizes Healthy People Out of the Market

House speaker Paul Ryan got himself into trouble Thursday for broadly describing why the GOP considers the risk-sharing under Obamacare between younger and older consumers a failure, leaving out the details that got reporters questioning his understanding of insurance...  Read more

Trump and Russia: Washington's fashionable conspiracy theory

"Does intelligence exist that can definitively answer the following question, whether there were improper contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials?"...  Read more

House GOP targets VA's 'bad apples' in vote next week

House Republicans are gearing up for a vote next week on legislation that would make it easier to fire, demote and strip bonus awards from corrupt or negligent officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs...  Read more

AHCA a case study in compassion, fairness and freedom

When legislators talk about health care, we're talking about people's livelihoods, their futures and, fundamentally, our credibility as an equitable, compassionate society...  Read more

Trump in Two Tones

President Trump can go both ways. On February 24, he delivered a wild-and-woolly speech brimming with populist anger to the Conservative Political Action Conference...  Read more

Democrats who voted against Obamacare seven years ago wary of GOP bill

Only three House Democrats who voted against Obamacare in 2010 are in office today as Republicans prepare to repeal the law, and they aren't likely to back the GOP plan to replace it...  Read more

Obamacare replacement is hard to score, budget experts say

Republicans have a point that their Obamacare replacement plan is particularly hard for the Congressional Budget Office to score, budget experts say...  Read more

America needs comprehensive tax reform

Though America has prospered since the end of the so-called "great recession," the economy has grown by so little it's hardly worthy of mention...  Read more

Doing Nancy's bidding?

Republicans control the presidency as well as both houses of Congress. They were elected on a tsunami of public frustration with Democrats and their heavy-handed regulatory fatwas - especially with regard to healthcare...  Read more

C.S. Lewis and the Hound of Heaven

A new one-man play about one man's spiritual pilgrimage, C.S. Lewis on Stage: The Most Reluctant Convert, opens with a riff against a cruel, indifferent, and seemingly meaningless universe reminiscent of a Woody Allen monologue...  Read more

The road to Obamacare replacement is getting rockier

Republicans are facing deep political potholes as they move down the road of repealing and replacing Obamacare...  Read more

Environmentalists to try to extend crisis at grid watchdog

Environmental groups are switching gears from opposing single pipeline projects, such as the Dakota Access and Keystone XL, to opposing the agency that is charged with approving them...  Read more