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Government Shutdown
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
October 2, 2013
Nate Cohn
Who Are the 17 Republicans Willing to End the Shutdown?
October 2, 2013
John B. Judis
The Shutdown Standoff Is One of the Worst Crises in American History
Welcome to Weimar America
October 2, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Obamacare Is Not the Cause of Republican Insanity
October 2, 2013
Marc Tracy
Liberals May Be in Danger of Finding GOP Politicians Not Guilty
October 2, 2013
Noam Scheiber
Conservatives Have Already Lost Control of the Shutdown Narrative
October 2, 2013
Mark Schmitt
More Partisanship: What We Need to Fix Congress
Stronger political parties would have avoided this week's shutdown
October 1, 2013
Molly Redden
Meet Charlie Dent, One of Two Moderately Sane House Republicans
October 1, 2013
The New Republic Staff
The Last Government Shutdown Was Nothing Compared to 2013
October 1, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
United Democrats Stand, Divided Republicans Fall
October 1, 2013
Julia Ioffe
Two Russians Walk Into a Parliamentary Crisis...
October 1, 2013
Ryan Kearney
The Top Story on Conservative Websites Is Not the Shutdown
October 1, 2013
Marc Tracy
Larry King: "This Is One of the Worst Periods I’ve Ever Seen"

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