For all the media pronouncements about how the party has ruined its brand, I think the GOP death watch is way premature.
There is a reason that John Boehner offered a short-term extension of the debt ceiling yesterday as the two sides finally stopped calling each other names and began the minuet that should lead to a...
Washington is now a place where the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
In the early days of the Great Government Shutdown—way back last week--the right and left were clashing over whether this was pandemonium or a pinprick. But now the dispute is over whether the pain...
Sick of the shutdown yet? It seems like we’re inundated with the same talking points from each side as the government’s partial closure heads into its second week.
Such is the tinderbox atmosphere of Washington these days that even a couple of quotes in the newspaper can prove incendiary.
Yesterday's security scare makes me reflect on the contrast between the manufactured crisis that forced the government shutdown and the real-life attack on government employees.
Shutting down lots of federal agencies is drastic, and whatever your view of the politics, the impact is very real.
There were competing story lines as the media coped with day one of the shutdown.
After huge swaths of the federal government shut down this morning, the media are no longer confining their coverage to Washington.
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