The Agenda

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    Can Paul Ryan actually privatize Medicare?

    Thanks to Trump, Ryan finally has the chance to make huge policy changes. Now comes the hard part.

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    Obama's misguided rule to reduce pay discrimination

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    7 big areas where Jeff Sessions could change policy at DOJ

  • On the radar

    • Nov. 29 - Dec. 2: The American Society of International Law holds its 33rd international conference
    • Wednesday, Nov. 30: Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the reported settlement agreement between the Justice Department and EpiPen maker Mylan
    • Wednesday, Nov. 30: House Foreign Affairs subcommittees hold a joint hearing on "Libya Five Years After Ghadafi"
    • Wednesday, Nov. 30: Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation subcommittee hearing on "The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence"
    • Wednesday, Nov. 30: Government Executive holds its Digital Citizen Summit
    • Wednesday, Nov. 30: The Foreign Policy Initiative holds its 2016 Forum with the theme "An Era of Consequences"
    • Wednesday, Nov. 30: The Washington Post and Mic hold a Juvenile Justice Summit
    • Wednesday, Nov. 30: The Bipartisan Policy Center holds a discussion on "A Homeland Security Outlook for 2017"
    • Wednesday, Nov. 30: The Brookings Institution holds a discussion on "Understanding Fedspeak"
    • Wednesday, Nov. 30: The Hudson Institute holds a discussion on "The State of NATO and U.S. Foreign Relations"
    • Wednesday, Nov. 30: The State Department and the Energy Department hold a discussion on "Nuclear Explosion Monitoring: 60 Years of Science and Innovation"
    • Wednesday, Nov. 30: The Brookings Institution holds a discussion on "A reform agenda for the federal budget process"
    • Thursday, Dec. 1: The Center for Strategic and International Studies holds its 2016 Global Security Forum
    • Thursday, Dec. 1: The Heritage Foundation holds a discussion on "Tax Reform in the Next Congress" with House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady
    • Thursday, Dec. 1: The National Endowment for Democracy holds a discussion on "Democracy and the Media Challenge in the 21st Century"
    • Thursday, Dec. 1: The American Enterprise Institute holds a discussion on "Conservatism in the 115th Congress"
    • Dec. 1-2: The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and Office of Financial Research hold the 2016 Financial Stability Conference
    • Friday, Dec. 2: BLS releases November jobs report
    • Friday, Dec. 2: House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee holds a hearing on WMATA
    • Wednesday, Dec. 7: Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T, and Jeffrey Bewkes, CEO of Time Warner, testify before Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the proposed AT&T-Time Warner merger
    • Dec. 13-14: Federal Reserve meets to set monetary policy
    • Thursday, Dec. 22: BEA releases third and final estimate of third quarter GDP
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    How to Repeal Obamacare: A road map for the GOP

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    How Trump's victory could give Russia another win

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    Trump's attack dog on climate

    Myron Ebell dismisses the science on global warming, mocks environmentalists and has made a career of attacking Republicans for being too soft. And he could soon be leading the EPA.

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    Why locking in fuel subsidy reforms is a top U.S. priority

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    What Trump could really do on immigration

    Don't count on Mexico paying for that wall, or 11 million deportations—but he'll have the power to crack down far more harshly on undocumented immigrants.

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    Is the AT&T-Time Warner merger a bad idea?

    Politicians are piling on. But a new paper shows which mergers actually hurt consumers.

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    How to fix NAFTA

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    Obama's failed policy on South Sudan

    The White House rubber-stamped more military aid to the country last week, despite its continued use of child soldiers.

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    Donald Trump’s confused portrait of black America

    A POLITICO analysis debunks his claims on black poverty.

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    How Congress can protect the U.S. from Russia

    Presidents typically take the lead on foreign policy. But Congress has a major role to play too.

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    Obama's new Obamacare talking point debunked

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    The bigger unfairness behind Trump’s tax break

    The problem isn’t that he could write off his income for years. The problem is that everyone else can’t.

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    Can Washington control high-tech lending?

    A fast-moving new alternative to banks is raising crucial questions about fairness—and regulators are scrambling to keep up.

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    The charter war

    Why the first lobbying fight over financial technology is erupting over a 150-year-old Washington agency.

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    Meet your robot adviser

    A new breed of firms takes money management out of the hands of humans. Is software actually better at it?

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    Overpasses: A love story

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    Is Washington creating more Flints?

    The untold story behind this year’s water scandal is that D.C. has been turning its back on America’s crucial water systems, leaving cities and states with the bill.

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    Arne Duncan’s Wars

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    The Debrief

    FEMA head Craig Fugate explains what keeps him up at night

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    Uber vs. Laws

    Will the “sharing economy” help kill off government regulation?

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    Leaked: What’s in Obama’s trade deal

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    I became a wired wonk

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    Bitcoin vs. the SEC

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    The government program with a 116% default rate

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    Why the GOP is trying to stop the Pentagon's climate plan

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    Inside the war on coal

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    Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson leans in to talk to retired veteran Paul Chevalier during an event in Manchester, N.H.

    How to kill an agency

    Ben Carson wants to end the VA? Good luck. Here’s why it’s nearly impossible.

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    Wrongometer

    Donald Trump's imaginary immigration haul

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    Inside the fight against Obama's climate plan

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    The Capitol is not connected to the Internet

    It’s true. Here’s why.

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    The U.S. government’s predatory-lending program

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    The Big Idea

    Tax Harvard!

    President Barack Obama wants to make college more affordable. Here's how.

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    The wrong state to have an accident

    Obamacare was supposed to improve health care equality. But for some people, state politics has made the problem much worse.

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    The holes in the overtime rule

    Despite Obama's sweeping new regulation, America's 1930s-era labor law is still leaving a strange assortment of workers in the cold.

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    Trump's Wall plan could actually increase crime

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    Cats, weed, and outer space

    A field guide to the 2016 scorecards you probably didn’t know about (until now)

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    Al Gore: Optimist?

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    The new Obama rule that’s making stockbrokers swear

    Whose interest is a retirement adviser supposed to serve?

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    Trade with Cuba? We already do $300 million worth

    A look inside our little-known export pipeline suggests who might benefit when the embargo lifts.

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    Jason Furman has been an Obama aide since the hope-and-change campaign of 2008.

    The Obamanomics legacy

    A Q&A with Jason Furman.

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    Billions over budget. Two years after deadline. What’s gone wrong for the ‘clean coal’ project that’s supposed to save an industry?

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    The Flint of California

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    Our best frenemy

    China's hackers aren't delicate cat burglars. They're smash-and-grab artists helping build an economy, and that makes the Chinese hacking problem harder to fix than you think.

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    Congress just outlawed changes to the $1 bill

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    The Katrina disaster that hasn’t ended

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    The 7-year-old government loan program that has never made a loan

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    Congress tries to hide a submarine