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Littwin: Chances for Obamacare repeal may be up in the air,...

Whether or not this is the final act of Obamacare, it is is playing out pretty much as expected in the dysfunctional Republican Senate,...

Wiretap: Many of the “bad hombres” facing deportation turn out to...

The "bad hombres" that Trump promised to deport during his presidential campaign have often instead been good mothers, whose deportation would break families apart....

Wiretap: The most obvious reason why Obamacare repeal failed: ‘It’s an...

Just how did Donald Trump and Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell and the rest of the GOP gang manage to fall short in their...

Littwin: The real story of the failed Obamacare repeal: GOP can’t...

The great lie of the long-running Obamacare debate has officially been revealed. The reason Republicans spent seven years without offering their own health care...

Wiretap: The tweaked Senate healthcare bill still has many more losers...

Republicans have tweaked their healthcare bill in order to win over skeptical senators. Let's just say it may not be working. Rand Paul and...

Littwin: Fourth of July, Donald Trump and pyrotechnophobia — an abiding...

It is the Fourth of July and Donald Trump is president of the United States. Think of it. Now, if you dare, think a...

Wiretap: GOP pols learn to ignore Trump’s past statements because they...

Republicans have learned an important lesson during the healthcare battle, writes Ezra Klein in Vox. They don't have to worry about anything Trump has said...

Wiretap: While GOP stuck in bid to repeal Obamacare, Dems moving...

While Republicans are stuck trying to repeal Obamacare, unable to even get the latest Trumpcare bill onto the Senate floor, Democrats are moving away...

Littwin: The CBO tells the hard truths about Trumpcare that the...

It's official. The CBO projects that the Senate version of Trumpcare would not be quite as mean as the House version. Instead of 23...

Wiretap: Supreme Court will hear Colorado baker’s religious freedom fight over...

The Supreme Court has decided it will hear the appeal from a Lakewood baker who, citing his First Amendment right of religious freedom, refused...