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The House GOP’s shutdown deal is a big improvement
House Republicans are working on their own plan to end the government shutdown and, at least in its current form, it's pretty reasonable. Not a bad play. (Scott Applewhite/AP) On first glance the House...
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House Republicans are falling for the sunk cost fallacy
The past is the past, you might imagine John Boehner telling his Republican colleagues who are falling for the sunk cost fallacy. (Scott Applewhite/AP) If there is to be a successful resolution of the...
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The shutdown is ending. Here’s how.
They say that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Will the House take it to heart? (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) It ends not with a bang, but with a whimper....
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If Ted Cruz didn’t exist, Democrats would have to invent him
A true cynic about American politics would, at this point, be forced to one conclusion: Sen. Ted Cruz is a Democratic sleeper agent. Ted Cruz, the Democrats' secret weapon. (AP Photo/Senate TV) It is...
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The government shutdown wasn’t that bad for the politicians. It was terrible...
Just because they struck a deal doesn't mean everything is right. (Photo by Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images) John Anderson lost the government shutdown. His approval rating didn't fall. No political...
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Was the debt standoff American politics at its best, or worst?
By the dawn's early light, etc., etc. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) With a hat tip to George Packer's summer New Yorker piece "Two Minds on Syria," we now bring you a debate between Neil Irwin and Neil...
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The shutdown probably won’t matter in the 2014 election. It definitely won’t...
There's a tendency in non-election years for political pundits to project the consequences of big political events onto the next election, as if this is off-season and a bad week for the Republican...
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Republicans don’t love Barack Obama. But do they fear him?
Yeah, there is a debt deal. But the president is not impressed. We do not know what McKayla Maroney thinks about it. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) It's easy to look at the resolution of...
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Mitch McConnell delivers some real talk to House Republicans
Mitch McConnell sounds pretty frustrated with House Republicans. (Getty Images) Robert Costa of National Review, who has aced coverage of the fiscal showdown over the last three weeks, has a new...
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The brutal economies of hard-line Republican districts, in one chart
Forty-five House Republicans have consistently pushed their caucus into high-stakes clashes with President Obama over the past few years -- most recently in the government shutdown, but also during the...
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U.S. economy faces perilous autumn with threats in Washington and from abroad
The U.S. economy is entering an uncertain and perilous autumn, facing risks from abroad and from policymakers in Washington in what promises to be another tumultuous chapter in the nation's slow-going...
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