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Boehner’s immigration tantrum: Passing bad bills because “there is no alternative”

Simon Maloy
Boehner says he has no choice but to pass dead-on-arrival immigration measures. He's right, and it's his own fault

Majority of Americans back immigration actions GOP is trying to kill

Luke Brinker
Public wants Obama's actions to stand, but conservatives remain intent on overturning them

House votes to undo Obama’s immigration actions

Luke Brinker
Chamber votes 236-191 to kill president's reforms

GOP’s self-made disaster: Senate Repubs break with House on immigration & DHS funding

Simon Maloy
House Republicans are ready to defund DHS to block Obama's immigration action, but some GOP senators are wary

GOP’s dopey immigration ploy: Here’s how the DHS funding fight plays out

Simon Maloy
Republicans said they'll absolutely fund Homeland Security, then got busy doing the exact opposite of that

“Do absolutely nothing”: How Obama wins the immigration standoff

Gabriel Arana
For all their posturing, Republicans are playing this policy fight with an awful hand -- and no policy alternative

Giving up the game: Key House GOPer admits their DHS shutdown scheme will fail

Simon Maloy
House Homeland Security chair Mike McCaul says DHS funding won't be withheld over Obama's immigration action

“We’re going to make Mitch McConnell famous”: Leading reformer details huge new quest

Elias Isquith
David Donnelly tells Salon why the new Senate majority leader should ready himself for a fight on campaign finance

GOP’s grand con job: Why it’s cynically scheming to dupe the 1 percent

Elias Isquith
New profile of Speaker Boehner alleges he wants another shot at the grand bargain. Here's what's really going on

Revenge of GOP “knuckleheads”: The right keeps up pressure on Boehner on immigration

Simon Maloy
Crazy man Louie Gohmert's campaign for Speaker is a reminder that conservatives are ready for an immigration fight

Louie Gohmert’s big challenge: A test vote on the efficacy of the next Congress

Jim Newell
Boehner will remain speaker in the next Congress. But will a larger conference protect him from the "knuckleheads"?

Our scary new Congress: Meet 5 Tea Party extremists taking office this month

Luke Brinker
These five hard-right Republicans promise to make the 114th Congress a spectacularly awful one

Ted Cruz’s big year: A look back at his 2014, and how he can ruin 2015 too

Jim Newell
The Texas senator is finishing an impressive sophomore year. How can he top it in 2015?

2015’s biggest days for politics: Salon’s handy calendar for the next year

David Dayen
Want to know which critical deadlines Republicans will sneakily try to exploit? Bookmark this timeline as a guide

Let’s abandon the Democrats: Stop blaming Fox News and stop hoping Elizabeth Warren will save us

Bill Curry
Progressives have no power in a corporate, focus-grouped, Wall Street-leaning party. But we are the change we need

GOP gets a grip: How the righteous fury over Obama’s immigration action cooled down

Jim Newell
Republicans once seemed ready to take extraordinary measures to stop Obama's action. Is the appetite gone?

Congressional GOP sneaks anti-science provision into government shutdown bill

Joanna Rothkopf
In only a truly dysfunctional society can what food we eat be separated from how we produce it

The disgusting “Cromnibus” spectacle: When “compromise” reigns supreme, the people get hosed

Jim Newell
The House pass, and the Senate is about to pass, an atrocious piece of legislation. But hey, it's a compromise!

A new day for liberals: What we learned in the epic clash over the spending bill

Joan Walsh
An apparent loss for the left conceals signs of new life in the Democratic Party -- a powerful new bloc emerges

10 Things to Know for Today

Congress hates the reefer: Sells out D.C. again, says no to legalized pot

Jim Newell
Budget deal includes Rep. Andy Harris' language scuttling D.C.'s pot legalization. Great effort, morons

10 Things to Know for Today

Fox’s mortifying Limbaugh spat: Titans of GOP clash over government shutdown

Joan Walsh
Rush comes to Fox to trash Obama and push a government shutdown -- and Chris Wallace (meekly) challenges him
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