The situation we currently find oursevles in is very much driven by structural issues.
Reasonable members of the House GOP caucus are fighting back. Are they outnumbered?
The Defense Department might open for business while the rest of government remains shut down.
The diary entries of a dying Ulysses S. Grant shed some interesting insights into a different time.
President Obama had some potentially market-moving news for Wall Street.
The NFL donates its game broadcasts to troops deployed in harm’s way but they still won’t get to see them during the shutdown.
If you want to understand why Republicans in Congress are acting like they are, just look at the polls.
Air Force lieutenant colonel (designate) Erik Brine is so unessential that it hurts.
Tom Clancy, author of dozens of bestselling military thriller novels, has died aged 66.
There’s no sign that the government shutdown will end any time soon.
Congress is still getting paid during the shutdown, and there’s nothing that can be done about that.
Chris Christie had some words about the crisis in D.C., and they almost sound like they could be part of a 2016 campaign message
Day One of the Obamacare online “marketplaces” is proving to be a bit of a bumpy ride.
Nick Gillespie advances the counterintuitive argument that President Obama is responsible for today’s government shutdown.
The American taxpayer spent a lot of money today paying their employees not to work.
The news PPACA controversy appears to be based on a complete misunderstanding of one provision of the law.