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Government Shutdown
December 12, 2014
Brian Beutler
We Just Witnessed the Most Important Day in Politics All Year
December 10, 2014
Brian Beutler
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid Just Revealed Democrats' 2015 Strategy
November 21, 2014
Danny Vinik
Get Ready for a Government Shutdown Over Obama's Immigration Order
November 14, 2014
Brian Beutler
Charles Krauthammer: Obama Is About to Commit an Impeachable Offense
November 6, 2014
Danny Vinik
Obama and McConnell Are Trying to Pretend They're Not Plotting to Destroy Each Other
October 28, 2014
Brian Beutler
The GOP Chair Just Declared a Post-Election War Against Obama
October 1, 2014
Danny Vinik
Happy First Birthday, Obamacare! The GOP Brought You This Dishonest Tweet.
September 8, 2014
Danny Vinik
Congress Is Back. Is Another Government Shutdown Coming?
August 28, 2014
Brian Beutler
Yes, Republicans Are Threatening a Government Shutdown Fight
August 27, 2014
Danny Vinik
Stop Twisting Republican Quotes. They're Not Threatening Another Government Shutdown.
August 22, 2014
Brian Beutler
The GOP's Midterm Strategy Is as Hollow as Their Ideas Are
Meanwhile, Democrats are running on Obamacare—they're just not calling it that
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.

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