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Debt Ceiling Hostage Crisis

  1. the national interest
    Centrist Fanatics Go Wild Over Debt-Ceiling DealThey just like bipartisan deals, regardless of content.
    By Jonathan Chait
  2. debt ceiling hostage crisis
    The No Good, Not That Bad Debt Ceiling DealExtortion paid off, but only a little bit.
    By Eric Levitz
  3. debt ceiling hostage crisis
    Is Joe Biden Botching the Debt-Ceiling Fight?Yes and maybe not.
    By Eric Levitz
  4. the national interest
    The Media Is Normalizing Debt-Ceiling ExtortionNo, this is not how Congress always does it. This is different, and dangerous.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Kevin McCarthy Wants to Negotiate the Deficit? Fine, Let’s Talk Taxes.Exposing the extortion scheme with one simple word.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    House Republican Debt Bill Would Throw 600,000 Off Health InsuranceThe institutional sociopathy of the GOP in one stat.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Kevin McCarthy’s Main Debt-Ceiling Argument Is a LieA clean hike can’t pass? Of course it can.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    It’s Republicans Who Won’t Negotiate Over the Budget DeficitThe other big lie in this hostage crisis is hiding in plain sight.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Debt Ceiling Extortion Is an Attack on DemocracyIf Republicans want to cut spending, they should win an election and do it themselves.
    By Jonathan Chait
  10. the national interest
    Imagine Negotiating a Debt-Ceiling Ransom With These ManiacsTime to start minting the coin.
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. the system
    Return of the Hostage TakersJoe Biden’s last chance to stop the GOP’s economic sabotage.
    By Eric Levitz
  12. the national interest
    Republicans Plan Debt-Limit Crisis to Force Cuts to Medicare and Social SecurityThey always do this.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Republican House Majority Will Try to Melt Down Global EconomyDemocrats need to sabotageproof the government while they still can.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    In Staggering Triumph, Debt Ceiling IncreasedU-S-A! U-S-A!
    By Jonathan Chait
  15. the national interest
    House Republican Debt Ceiling Hostage UpdateIt’s getting sad.
    By Jonathan Chait
  16. Baffler Writer Baffled by Distinction Between Means and EndsAn objection from an authentic voice of the people.
    By Jonathan Chait
  17. the national interest
    Will Debt-Ceiling Extortion Ever Return?Our Photoshop artists would really like to know.
    By Jonathan Chait
  18. the national interest
    Stop Fretting: The Debt-Ceiling Crisis Is Over! [Updated]Take down the yellow ribbons.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Boehner’s New Demand: Rob Congressional Staff [Updated]He’s possibly willing to negotiate it down to a provision for regular staff floggings.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Today’s Update: John Boehner to Decide Whether to Blow Up World NowRelax. The chances of worldwide calamity are under 50 percent.
    By Jonathan Chait
  21. the national interest
    Senators Near Deal on GOP SurrenderLurching toward sanity.
    By Jonathan Chait
  22. the national interest
    Are Democrats Demanding Their Own Ransom Now?Hear me out: This may all be deliberate spin.
    By Jonathan Chait
  23. the national interest
    Paul Ryan’s Ridiculously Unfair DealAmerica’s snake-oil salesman is back.
    By Jonathan Chait
  24. the national interest
    House Republicans’ Ransom Demands FallingA million dollars in unmarked bills? No? How about half a million in marked bills?
    By Jonathan Chait
  25. the national interest
    John Boehner Too Embarrassed to Defend His Own Extortion DemandsA tellingly hasty press conference.
    By Jonathan Chait
  26. the national interest
    Obama Has a Shutdown Message Problem — Here’s How to Fix ItOnce again, a gaffe comes along to save him.
    By Jonathan Chait
  27. the national interest
    Ross Douthat: Debt-Ceiling Extortion Isn’t So Bad, ReallyThe best argument for extortion is still a terrible argument.
    By Jonathan Chait
  28. the national interest
    How Republicans Failed to Understand the Democrats’ Debt-Ceiling LogicHow the GOP blundered into the crisis.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. the national interest
    Let Me Explain How Extortion Works, RepublicansA goonish party is surprisingly unfamiliar with our country’s rich genre of mafia films and shows.
    By Jonathan Chait
  30. Why the Shutdown Is Leading to Debt DefaultJohn Boehner is looking more like Fargo’s Jerry Lundegaard every day.
    By Jonathan Chait
  31. the national interest
    How to Depose John BoehnerA centrist coup to save America.
    By Jonathan Chait
  32. the national interest
    The House GOP’s Legislative StrikeHell no, they won’t go.
    By Jonathan Chait
  33. the national interest
    Ted Cruz Now Ruining John Boehner’s Life, TooBoehner admirably avoiding public tears.
    By Jonathan Chait
  34. the national interest
    House GOP Does House GOP-est Thing EverComically extreme ransom note not comically extreme enough.
    By Jonathan Chait
  35. the national interest
    The Debt-Ceiling Showdown Is the Fight of Obama’s LifeIt’s kind of a big deal.
    By Jonathan Chait
  36. the national interest
    Republican Ransom Demand: Implement Romney PlanAs a compromise, Obama will not be deported to Kenya.
    By Jonathan Chait
  37. the national interest
    Why Obama Can’t Pay a Debt-Ceiling Ransom This TimeMore than Obamacare is at stake.
    By Jonathan Chait
  38. the national interest
    The House Shutdown Plan Is Not a PlanBoehner’s already getting desperate.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Republican Debt-Ceiling Extortionists: We Are Not ExtortionistsYes, you are.
    By Jonathan Chait
  40. the national interest
    Obama, Republicans, and the Crisis of LegitimacyThe real cause of the Obamacare shutdown calamity.
    By Jonathan Chait
  41. the national interest
    Boehner to Obama: Can I Please Take You Hostage?You may not want to be a hostage, but I need the money bad.
    By Jonathan Chait
  42. the national interest
    House Republican Anarchy UpdateHuman sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria — another day in John Boehner’s House.
    By Jonathan Chait
  43. the national interest
    Washington Heads to the Fiscal BrinkSo be it, “Jedi.”
    By Jonathan Chait
  44. the national interest
    The Case for Freaking Out Over Congress“Freaking out” may be too strong. “Concern”?
    By Jonathan Chait
  45. the national interest
    Autumn in Washington: There Will Be BloodThe retreat from the brink looks temporary.
    By Jonathan Chait
  46. the national interest
    Republican ‘Evil Genius’ Departs, Washington Actually Now Even More DangerousYes, things have gotten very bad.
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. the national interest
    The GOP’s Missing Internal DebateAs chaos looms, an eerie silence among conservative intellectuals.
    By Jonathan Chait
  48. the national interest
    Today in ‘John Boehner’s Life Is a Living Hell’Why does he need this crap?
    By Jonathan Chait
  49. the national interest
    John Boehner’s Coming SharknadoIt’s ‘Sharknado’ meets ‘House of Cards’ meets ‘Austin Powers.’
    By Jonathan Chait
  50. the national interest
    House Republicans Plot Debt-Ceiling StrategeryWhat if we demand Obama resign!? No? What if we demand he change his name to “Reagan”?
    By Jonathan Chait
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