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John Boehner was really bad at his job. Now things are about to get epically worse
Paul Rosenberg
The right was never controllable. Boehner's enduring shame will be having not reached across the aisle to govern
Carly Fiorina’s despicable Planned Parenthood lies have gotten even worse
Heather Digby Parton
The GOP upstart made news with her absurd claims about reproductive health at the last GOP debate. It gets worse
John Boehner’s legacy of failure: He resigns with few admirers and fewer accomplishments
Simon Maloy
Speaker Boehner steps down after four years of gridlock and toxic political fighting. Don't expect much to change
John Boehner’s shutdown secret: Why he might allow the government to go dark to save his job
Simon Maloy
It'd be disastrous, but John Boehner may see a government shutdown as the best way to secure his speakership
Lindsey Graham’s new mission: Troll the hell out of Ted Cruz
Simon Maloy
Languishing at the bottom of the 2016 GOP polls, Lindsey Graham is preparing to declare war on a Senate colleague
Sorry, Ted Cruz: Defunding Planned Parenthood would actually increase government spending
Sophia Tesfaye
CBO report warns Republicans' budget-busting defunding plan would cost $130 million by shifting burden to Medicaid
“Right-wing Marxists”: The looming shutdown has Republicans at each others’ throats
Simon Maloy
An influential Republican whacks his conservative colleagues as de facto allies of Nancy Pelosi. He's not wrong
Ted Cruz’s diabolical shutdown strategy: Why the GOP senator wants to watch the world burn
Heather Digby Parton
The government is hurtling towards yet another shutdown this fall. The man with the most to gain: Ted Cruz
Robert Reich: The Republican war on Planned Parenthood is indefensible
Robert Reich
The former secretary of labor explains how defunding is not only morally bankrupt but economically unsound
Ted Cruz can’t lose: Why the brewing Planned Parenthood shutdown fight can only help him
Simon Maloy
Kelly Ayotte asks Ted Cruz what his plan for a government shutdown is. It's simple: Blame Republicans when it fails
The GOP’s infantile delusions are out of control: A ludicrous CNN debate, a preposterous government shutdown & Donald Trump, still leading the pack
Conor Lynch
If last week's debate wasn't proof enough, then a Republican-controlled Congress hurtling toward shutdown should be
Congress is a confederacy of dunces — and its Republicans should be made to sit in the corner
Michael Winship
After all the damage the last government shutdown wrought, our elected officials are gearing up for a sequel
The right’s Planned Parenthood trap: Manufactured controversies, pliant Democrats and the decades-long plot to “defund the left”
Josh Mound
Planned Parenthood non-troversy is the latest chapter in a 40-year crusade to cut the left off at the grassoots
New York Times’ risible Carly Fiorina puffery: Stop pretending she’ll magically solve the GOP’s woman problem
Sean Illing
Ignore the hype: Despite her gender, GOP's newest flavor of the month is drastically out of step with women voters
The age of apocalyptic government: What the latest GOP shutdown threats reveal about American politics
Conor Lynch
Republicans in Congress are threatening to shut down government (again) over Planned Parenthood
The right’s cynical, sinister shutdown plan: No one wants a shutdown — except demolition-minded wingnuts, who always get their way
David Dayen
Shutdown politics in polarization era always benefit the GOP -- even when they get blamed
Ted Cruz doesn’t need your liberally biased facts: The Planned Parenthood shutdown fight shows a movement at war with reality
Gary Legum
The right's crusade to defund Planned Parenthood is doomed. But try telling that to these post-evidence nihilists
The media made this f**king monster: How phony objectivity helped create Donald Trump
Paul Rosenberg
The old "both sides do it" lie keeps the press from talking honestly about politics, and helps empower the right
GOP’s Iran-shutdown debacle: What happens when the governing party is constantly fighting itself
Simon Maloy
The GOP's shambolic response to the Iran deal does not bode well for the upcoming government funding fight
Ted Cruz wants to be a martyr: What’s really behind his doomed Planned Parenthood shutdown fight
Sean Illing
The GOP lacks the votes to defund Planned Parenthood -- but Cruz wants to show his purity, consequences be damned
Carly Fiorina declares war on Mitch McConnell and John Boehner: GOP hopeful calls on leadership to step down
Sophia Tesfaye
The rising Republican contender butts heads with her party's House and Senate leaders
We’re about to find out how mad the GOP is: Hard choices in the looming Planned Parenthood shutdown fight
Simon Maloy
Mitch McConnell doesn't want a shutdown over Planned Parenthood, and 2016 GOPers are going to make his life hell
Buying sex should be legal: How the Rentboy shutdown stigmatizes sex workers & makes them more vulnerable
Stefan Vogler
Legalizing sex work means bringing it out of the shadows & off the streets -- and giving workers vital protections
Slavoj Žižek: Ayn Rand’s Tea Party lie — Now we know who John Galt is
Slavoj Žižek
How long will Tea Party base stick to basic irrationality of protecting working people by protecting the 1 percent?
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