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The shutdown crisis is nothing we haven’t seen before.A good portion of America has been trying to sabotage the government for almost our entire history.

The junior senator from Kentucky would be an appalling right-wing president, and yet he is a valuable politician: a man of conviction, and a visitation from a post-Obama political future.

A history of bipartisan hires at Quinn Gillespie, as told through press releases and contemporaneous coverage.

In 1951, journalists Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer wrote Washington Confidential, a dishy guide to D.C. and its denizens. the book sold 2 million copies. Here, a condensed excerpt.

Washington may be a dysfunctional place to govern, but it’s working better than ever as a marketplace for cashing in. And that’s thanks, more than anything, to the Democratic Establishment.

Enemy of the State screenwriter David Marconi says he warned us about the NSA fifteen years ago.

Note to Edward Snowden and his worrywarts in the press: Spying is only spying when the subject doesn’t want to be watched.

Two letters from Chicago.

… is really just yesterday. My surrogate parent Clayton Coots was one of countless closeted men who didn’t live long enough to see this moment.