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Did Obamacare's individual mandate work?

Under Obamacare, the penalty for not having health insurance is $695 for an individual, or 2.5 percent of income, whichever is higher...  Read more

There's method in Jim Mattis

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis visited Capitol Hill last week and gave Congress an important message...  Read more

Bipartisan sentiment in Congress unlikely to last despite baseball game distraction

Terence Mann once told Ray Kinsella in the 1989 classic movie "Field of Dreams" that baseball "reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again."...  Read more

Senate Passes Sanctions on Iran and Russia

The upper chamber goes for the double whammy...  Read more

Nearly half of renters paying too much for housing

Forty-eight percent of renters, or 21 million people, spent more than 30 percent of their income on rent in 2015, according to a new report...  Read more

Close Virginia race shows Trump poses risks to Republican incumbents

Polls and GOP politicos had predicted that the establishment-backed Ed Gillespie would win in a rout, but he was nearly upset by an enthusiastic Trump supporter...  Read more

Republicans have already given up on repealing and replacing Obamacare

The contents of the emerging Senate healthcare bill are the best-kept secret in Washington...  Read more

Possible obstruction of justice probe hasn't changed Trump team's plan, yet

An expanding federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election is placing President Trump in its crosshairs while the Trump camp and allies cry foul over what may be yet another leak...  Read more

Trump's expected reversal on Cuba is a victory for freedom

With no change in human rights in Cuba, American dollars will be spent funding authoritarian repression and a regime that has historically supported insurrectionism across Latin America...  Read more

The Real Story Behind the Diplomatic Crisis With Qatar

It’s not the principled stand against support for terror that it seems to be...  Read more

Lawmakers weigh security boost after baseball practice shooting

House Speaker Paul Ryan led a bipartisan meeting Wednesday about enhancing congressional protection, but nothing has been decided yet...  Read more

Be civil, but don't blame incivility for attempted murder

Rep. Chris Collins' mistake in attributing the shooting to heated rhetoric is tempting amid virulent opposition to the president and similar statements from Democrats, but it divorces the culprits from personal responsibility...  Read more

Megyn Kelly falls out of favor with the mainstream

Megyn Kelly is less than one month into her new role at NBC News, and much of the glowing national media coverage that she enjoyed as a star at Fox News has suddenly dimmed...  Read more

Sessions Discusses Comey, Russia, Trump in Senate Hearing

Senators grilled the attorney general, who appeared evasive on certain issues...  Read more

Trump to renominate Obama pick for FCC after axing her nomination

Jessica Rosenworcel served as a member of the FCC from 2012 until 2017...  Read more

Trump tries to lead on Obamacare

President Trump's reported call to make healthcare reform efforts more generous could alienate some of the conservatives he would need to get a bill through the Senate after narrowly succeeding in the House...  Read more

Republican healthcare reforms tiptoe timidly toward disaster

President Trump told a group of Republican senators their bill was "mean" and needed to be more generous, but both he and Senate Republicans are on the wrong course toward changing Obamacare...  Read more

The many missions of Jeff Sessions

All Attorney General Jeff Sessions has to do to in his dramatic Tuesday testimony before the Senate is tell the truth...  Read more