The Center for American Progress urges the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to look beyond narrow trade balances, to ...

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Censored: Erasing 250 Years of American History on Public Lands CAP analysis of a leaked Department of the Interior database reveals the scope and scale of the Trump administration’s efforts to erase ...

Trump’s Failed War in Iran Echoes Bush’s Iraq Blunder The Trump administration’s disastrous war in Iran has failed to achieve any of its strategic objectives while harming the American people, ...

To protect national security, the United States needs a strategic and disciplined approach to defense spending—not the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion budget, which fails to match resources to ...

Introduction Building wealth is essential to improving economic security for working Americans and families. Unlike income, wealth acts as a safety net during periods of hardship, allowing families to ...

President Trump’s moves to politicize the Department of Justice (DOJ) may well breathe new life into a long-dormant law that shifts the costs of wrongful federal prosecutions back to the government.

Premiums have more than doubled for millions of Americans since enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits expired, and millions more are projected to lose coverage over the next decade. The ...

Alt text: Table showing examples of weekly benefits and effective wage replacement rates for workers at different income levels under the Virginia paid leave law. For example, workers making $15 per ...

The Case Against Trump’s War of Choice in Iran In starting war with Iran, President Trump and his administration have knowingly put service members in harm’s way, inflicted suffering on innocent ...

Trump Is Potentially Leading the United States Into an Unnecessary War With Iran President Donald Trump is poised to carry out military action in Iran, but intervention is unlikely to achieve its ...

A Year in Review: How the Trump Administration’s Economic Policies Made Life Less Affordable for Americans The first year of the Trump administration has left Americans struggling with increased costs ...