Government Shutdown

If You Want to Know What Congress Did in 2019, Speed-Read the 2,300-Page Spending Bill

Jim Newell

Dec 16, 2019 7:35 PM

Congress Agrees to Keep Future Debt-Limit Crises Alive

Jim Newell

July 23, 2019 7:36 PM

We Appear to Be on the Path to Another Government Shutdown

Jim Newell

March 11, 2019 7:07 PM

Nancy Pelosi Put Her Faith in the Courts to Stop Trump’s Emergency Wall

Daniel Hemel

Feb 15, 2019 3:42 PM

Trump’s Proposed Border Wall National Emergency Is the Most Autocratic Move of His Presidency

Yascha Mounk

Feb 14, 2019 7:22 PM

Will AIPAC Divide the Democratic Party?

Feb 14, 2019 6:03 PM

Trump Plans to Sign the Border Deal—and Declare a National Emergency

Jim Newell

Feb 14, 2019 4:51 PM

Republicans Really Need to Sell Trump on This Border Deal. Here’s How That’s Going.

Jim Newell

Feb 12, 2019 7:39 PM

Congressional Negotiators Agree to Tentative Budget Deal to Avoid Another Shutdown

Elliot Hannon

Feb 11, 2019 10:51 PM

Netflix’s You Is a Dark, Delectable Rorschach Test

Jan 31, 2019 12:51 PM

Can the Stress of Air Travel Really Be Blamed for the 1995 Government Shutdown?

Jan 30, 2019 6:11 PM

Trump Is Losing His Wall Fight, and He’s Taking Republicans With Him

William Saletan

Jan 29, 2019 6:52 PM

The One Thing Republicans Could Do to Stop a National Emergency Declaration

Dahlia Lithwick

Jan 29, 2019 5:04 PM

Was the Shutdown Painful Enough to Convince Congress to Never Let It Happen Again?

Jim Newell

Jan 28, 2019 7:15 PM

Marco Rubio Says It Would Be a “Terrible Idea” for Trump to Declare a National Emergency to Fund His Border Wall

Molly Olmstead

Jan 28, 2019 9:25 AM

Pelosi Reveals How She Stood Up to Trump—and Won

Jim Newell

Jan 25, 2019 6:34 PM

The Nonsense Trump Spewed During the Shutdown Wasn’t Oblivious. It Was Tactical.

Dahlia Lithwick

Jan 25, 2019 6:29 PM

What Workers Can Learn From “the Largest Lockout in U.S. History”

Henry Grabar

Jan 25, 2019 6:23 PM

From “Advantage Trump” to “Pelosi is Alpha”: How Right-Wing Media Reacted to Trump Caving

Josh Voorhees

Jan 25, 2019 6:09 PM

Trump Caves on Shutdown, Agrees to Deal With No Wall Funding

Josh Voorhees

Jan 25, 2019 3:28 PM

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