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Government Shutdown
October 8, 2013
Michael Schaffer
One Graph Shows Why Democrats Shouldn't Celebrate the Shutdown Blame Game
October 8, 2013
Noam Scheiber
A Short-Term Debt Limit Increase Would Be a Disaster
President Obama shouldn't want it. Neither should John Boehner.
October 8, 2013
Nate Cohn
2013's Shutdown Backlash Against the GOP Is Actually Weaker Than 1996's
October 8, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Barney Frank Talks Shutdown, Calls an Old Colleague "Weird and Dissociated"
October 7, 2013
Julia Fisher
If There Are Enough Votes to End the Shutdown, Why Don't They Just Vote?
October 7, 2013
Benjamin Wittes
Tea Party Republicans Are Putting American Lives in Danger
October 7, 2013
Nate Cohn
Take Back the House? Democrats Aren't Even Ahead on Friendly Turf In 2014
October 7, 2013
Eric A. Posner
Three Ways Obama Could Raise the Debt Ceiling On His Own
The controversial, risky options if Congress doesn't act
October 7, 2013
Kevin Mahnken
The 12 Craziest Things Ever Said About Obamacare
October 6, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Watch This for 22 Seconds and You'll See Why Obama Can't Give an Inch
October 4, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Jay Leno, Right-Wing Hack
The Tonight Show host's jokes about the shutdown are laughably bad
October 4, 2013
Julia Fisher
Harry Reid's 13 Bluntest Quotes
October 4, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Dear Congress, Forgoing Pay Doesn't Exonerate You
October 4, 2013
Nate Cohn
Quit Blaming Gerrymandering for the Shutdown
October 3, 2013
Alec MacGillis
11 Bargaining Chips That Obama Can Offer the GOP
October 3, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Seven Silly Quotes About the Washington of Yore
October 3, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
The Republicans Are Starting to Reek of Desperation
October 3, 2013
Ben Crair
Six Shutdown Victims You Don't Have to Feel Sorry For
October 3, 2013
Noam Scheiber
Here's How the Shutdown Standoff is Going to End
October 2, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Shutdown Kabuki
A Tea Party circus at the WWII Memorial; no one at a children's cancer ward
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