Matt O'Brien

At hacker summit, a new focus on preventing brazen attacks

July 26, 2017 at 2:59 p.m.

Facebook's top security officer says it's time for hackers once known for relatively harmless mischief to shoulder responsibility for helping detect and prevent major attacks that threaten billions of internet...

House Speaker Paul Ryan talks to reporters on April 27 at the U.S. Capitol. Ryan took questions about ongoing negotiations between House leadership and the conservative Freedom Caucus over the legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

O’Brien: The simple reason Republicans are stuck with Obamacare

May 3, 2017 at 2:41 p.m.

Republicans have settled on a bold, new strategy for not replacing Obamacare. They're making the moderates in their caucus -- instead of the ultra-conservatives -- kill their plan.

Normally one would expect Congress to be the instrument of resistance to presidential trespass. But Congress became supine during Barack Obama's presidency, and into that vacuum stepped the states.

O’Brien: Republicans can’t find a way to repeal Obamacare because too many of them secretly love it

April 14, 2017 at 4:55 p.m.

Republicans haven't been able to replace Obamacare, because they think the problem with it, metaphorically speaking, is that the food is terrible and the portions are too small. That, of...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Feb. 22 meeting on the federal budget at the White House.

O’Brien: Republicans’ health care disaster is already haunting their plans for tax reform

March 28, 2017 at 3:16 p.m.

President Donald Trump is about two weeks away from discovering how complicated tax reform can be. It was always going to be difficult, but it got a lot more so...

House Speaker Paul Ryan of speaks during a March 8 news conference regarding the GOP's plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

O’Brien: The Republican plan to replace Obamacare makes no sense

March 8, 2017 at 11:15 a.m.

Republicans have finally decided how they want to replace Obamacare: with a much, much less generous version of it that almost seems designed to push individual insurance markets into death...

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