Topic: executive actions

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

AOC's plan to boost Biden's poll numbers

Madeleine Beck
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Matthew Pulver
(Reuters/Steve Marcus)

Gun nuts' unhinged fanaticism

Gary Legum
Mitch McConnell (Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

GOP's mortifying shutdown cave

Jim Newell
(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

GOP's big shutdown dilemma

Jim Newell
Mitch McConnell (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell, fixer no more

Jim Newell
(Reuters/Jim Bourg/Jonathan Ernst/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-130111p1.html'>Orhan Cam</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Photo montage by Salon)

GOP's "escape hatch"?

Jim Newell
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).

A phony DHS "compromise"

Jim Newell
John Boehner, Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell (Reuters/Larry Downing/Adrees Latif/AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Cruz roils GOP again

Jim Newell