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Ignore the Deniers: The Murder Rate Is Up Significantly

For roughly two decades, the United States enjoyed a marked decline in its crime rates...  Read more

Conservatives ratchet up pressure to ditch Senate rules

Republicans want to use budget reconciliation for measures not currently permitted under the process...  Read more

Conservative-leaning group launches Gorsuch ads targeting red-state Senate Democrats

Concerned Veterans for America is launching a series of web ads boosting Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and targeting Senate Democrats in Colorado, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia...  Read more

In talks with Trump, Conservatives make Ryan the scapegoat

Instead of rebuking Trump, conservative groups are dissing the AHCA as "Ryancare."...  Read more

Could Trumpcare Sink Republicans in 2018?

Not much over the past couple of days has made the passage of the American Health Care Act seem more likely...  Read more

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