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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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, ...

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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 ...

Budget analysts often cite the fiscal gap as a metric to quantify the extent of primary deficit reduction necessary to stabilize the debt ratio. The fiscal gap measures the average amount of primary ...

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 ...

The Trump Administration’s Dangerous Embrace of Cancel Culture The Trump administration and the far right are engaging in dangerous, un-American tactics to suppress speech they dislike, cementing ...

The Trump Administration’s Latest Staffing Cuts at the Department of Education Threaten Children’s Success Across the Country Cuts to staff at the Department of Education threaten the federal ...

This past term, the U.S. Supreme Court further undermined one of the most sacred tenets of American democracy: the separation of church and state. The First Amendment states that “Congress shall make ...