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Government Shutdown
August 20, 2014
Brian Beutler
Why Mitch McConnell Is Promising A Government Shutdown Fight—And Why It's Crazy
July 30, 2014
Brian Beutler
The Three Reasons Republicans Might Actually Impeach Obama in Spite of Themselves
July 8, 2014
Brian Beutler
What John Boehner Is Thinking in Suing Obama
June 27, 2014
Brian Beutler
Republicans Have a Choice: Their Donors, Their Right-Wingers, or a Government Shutdown
June 24, 2014
Brian Beutler
What If Benghazi-Mania Is As Good As it Gets?
Today's political climate is poisonous. But things can be much worse—and probably will be.
June 20, 2014
Brian Beutler
Republicans Probably Won't Force a Shutdown Before the Election. But After?
June 16, 2014
Rebecca Leber
House Republicans Are So Mad at the EPA that They Might Force Another Shutdown
October 28, 2013
John B. Judis
Right-wing Populism Could Hobble America for Decades
The tea party is going down. Dysfunction is not.
October 18, 2013
David Dayen
You Thought the Government Shutdown Was Over. You Were Wrong.
October 18, 2013
Marc Tracy
The New York Times Was Wrong: The Senate Is Still an Old Boys' Club
October 18, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Is Ted Cruz Emerging from the Shutdown a Winner?
October 17, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Grover Norquist's Three Funniest Analogies for Ted Cruz
October 17, 2013
Ryan Kearney
How Furloughed Feds Are Spending Their First Day Back at Work (CHART)
October 17, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
How Obama, Reid, and Pelosi Stopped Republican Extortion
Three reasons the Democrats won
October 16, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
We're About to Default, and the House Is Debating Traffic Cones
October 16, 2013
Marc Tracy
What Happens to the National Debt Clock If the U.S. Defaults?
October 16, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
The Republicans May Lose, But So Will You
October 15, 2013
Kevin Mahnken
Take the World War II Memorial—Please!
When the government reopens, shut this stuff down
October 15, 2013
Jennifer Kirby, Kathryn Olson
The Government Shutdown From A to Z: A Handy, Half-Serious Glossary
October 15, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Tick, Tick, Tick... Is This Boehner's Last Ransom Note?

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