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The GOP’s doomsday clock keeps ticking: Why the worst is yet to come in Congress
Conor Lynch
Congress appears poised to avoid a government shutdown this week, but that doesn't mean we're in the clear
Ronald Reagan would hate you all: The real history today’s right wing will never understand
Christopher Parker
House Republicans and Tea Partyers just don't get it: Their idol was actually nothing like them
Jeb! for president never made any sense: Why his precipitous collapse is far from surprising
Sean Illing
Bush's campaign is flagging and donors are getting anxious. Could anyone have seen this coming? Yes, yes we could
Stop calling Ted Cruz a conservative: This self-promoting narcissist is a fraud and a nihilist
Sean Illing
Labeling Cruz a conservative underestimates how dangerous he is. It's time we called out this Messianic crusader
The unexpected upshot of John Boehner’s ouster: The Trans-Pacific Partnership is in danger
David Dayen
Critics on both sides of the aisle were already unhappy with the TPP — and now conservatives are feeling bold
“Crazies have taken over the party”: Why even Republicans are worried about John Boehner’s ouster
Bob Cesca
John Boehner is on the way out, which means the extremist faction of the GOP is on the way up
“Hollywood, I mean, the GOP establishment”: Did Steve Doocy just reveal the depth of Fox News’ antipathy for moderate Republicans?
Scott Eric Kaufman
Was the "Fox & Friends" co-host's remark a Freudian slip or just an inexplicable but honest mistake?
It is time to get very afraid: Extremists, authoritarians now run the GOP — and no one can stop them
Heather Cox Richardson
Boehner and McConnell weren't conservative enough for them. Nor Eric Cantor. Right-wing purists won't stop here
John Boehner’s tears and Pope Francis’ radical challenge: A spiritual leader rises as a political nonentity falls
Andrew O'Hehir
Was the doomed speaker weeping in shame? He should have, because the pope exposed the abject failure of politics
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
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