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Republicans face pressure at home to repeal Obamacare quickly

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to unveil a draft of the Senate bill on Thursday, after spending weeks in secret writing an alternative to the House-passed legislation...  Read more

DHS Officials Tell Senators That 21 States Were Targeted by Russian Hackers

A few systems were successfully exploited, but officials stress that no votes or vote counts were changed...  Read more

A principled tax reform allows expensing of all business costs

Is any deduction a tax loophole?...  Read more

Can Mitch McConnell defuse the ticking Obamacare time bomb?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is overseeing the bomb squad as Obamacare ticks away...  Read more

Energized Trump takes victory lap after Republican special election wins

President Trump said Tuesday's Republican special election victories attested to the popularity of his legislative agenda...  Read more

Six Lessons From Georgia's 6th District

What Democrats and Republicans can take away from Karen Handel's Victory Over Jon Ossoff...  Read more

Handel Hangs On in Most Expensive House Race Ever

The Democrats threw millions behind her young challenger, only to watch him lose by 5 percentage points...  Read more

Saudi King Salman upends royal succession, names son as first heir

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has appointed his 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince, removing the country's counterterrorism czar and a figure well-known to Washington from the royal line of succession...  Read more

Lost factories and construction pushed Erie County to put its hope in Trump

Todd Sias couldn't wait to show us the photographs...  Read more

Border adjustment foes hope Paul Ryan abandoning idea for lower tax rates

Ryan conspicuously skirted the issue of border adjustment in a heavily promoted speech at the National Association of Manufacturers...  Read more

Republicans hope to avoid Georgia upset and salvage their agenda

Republicans nervously await results from Georgia Tuesday, hoping to avoid a watershed upset that could derail their ambitious agenda and drive a wedge between their congressional majorities and President Trump...  Read more

Tax reform is a real must-do

House Speaker Paul Ryan's plan, written with Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, has its strengths...  Read more

Trails of the Jazz Age

Do we need another biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald?...  Read more

Trump Still Silent on Latest London Terror Attack

Where is President Trump’s response to the terrorist attack in London?...  Read more

Can Trump Bring Peace to Israel and Palestine?

The odds for any administration are low but his quest for personal glory might motivate him...  Read more

Mega stakes as defense companies face deadline on Air Force trainer bid

Lockheed Martin and Boeing are set to turn over flight performance data to the Air Force on their proposals for the T-X jet...  Read more

Rising to the Occasion

Journals like this one exist, generally speaking, not to praise politicians but to chastise, to upbraid, or at least to criticize them...  Read more

Lawmakers grapple with how to build from Trump's 'infrastructure week'

The Trump administration says it would use tax breaks to incentivize private business to spend more money on infrastructure projects...  Read more