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Views and Analysis
- Could Democrats Win the Shutdown Standoff? They're Still Winning the Blame Game — Aaron Blake, CNN
- What's Happening to End the Government Shutdown? Nothing — Stephen Collinson, CNN
- How Trump Played 'Budgetary Twister' to Pay Some Workers During the Shutdown — Tony Romm, New York Times
- Inside Mike Johnson's Shutdown Strategy of Keeping House Republicans Away From Washington — Mychael Schnell, MSNBC
- Fed Making Key Economic Decisions Without Key Economic Data — David Dayen, American Prospect
- Shutdown With No Clear End Poses New Economic Threat — Lydia DePillis, New York Times
- Democrats Can't Afford to Unconditionally Surrender on Shutdown — Ed Kilgore, New York
- ObamaCare Premiums Are Doubling? Don't Believe It — Chris Jacobs, Wall Street Journal
- Washington May Be Missing Signs of Economic Trouble — Eugene Ludwig, Politico
- Congressional Casework Is Hard. The Shutdown Is Making It Harder — Justin Papp, Roll Call
- 'Power of the Purse' at Stake — Paul M. Krawzak, Aidan Quigley and David Lerman, Roll Call (podcast)
- They're Small, Yellow and Round - and Show How Trump's Tariffs Don't Work — Michael Grunwald, New York Times
- The Natural Rate of Interest Foretells America's Fiscal Doom — Clive Crook, Bloomberg
- In Praise of the Idle Rich Wastrel — Timothy Noah, New Republic
- Neither Party Dominates in Favorability or Trust — Lydia Saad, Gallup
- No, the Boomers Did Not Take It All — Robert Kuttner, American Prospect
Views and Analysis
- How Is This Shutdown Different From Other Shutdowns? — Riley Beggin and Jacob Bogage, Washington Post
- Speaker 'Mad Mike' Johnson Becomes Voice of GOP Shutdown Strategy — Emily Brooks, The Hill
- The King of the Shutdown — Sophia Cai
- What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump's Shadow President — Andy Kroll, ProPublica
- Wall Street Is Betting on an Obamacare Deal. That Won't Fix Insurers' Troubles — David Wainer, Wall Street Journal
- When Could the Shutdown End? 5 Key Dates to Watch — Al Weaver, The Hill
- Trump's Tariffs as Fiscal Folly — Kimberly Clausing, Center for Economic Policy Research
- Despite Tariffs, US Merchandise Imports Increased and Exports Held Steady in the First Half of 2025 — Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Ye Zhang, Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Trump Says Inflation Is Dead. Most Data Says: Not Quite — Andrew Ackerman and Alyssa Fowers, Washington Post
- We Found a Solution to Homelessness. Now the Trump Administration Wants to Throw It Out — Philip Mangano, New York Times
- SNAP Benefits Will Soon Be Tied to Error Rates. These States Are in the Biggest Trouble — Alix Martichoux, The Hill
- Here's Who Pays When Undocumented Immigrants Get Health Care in America — David Ovalle, Washington Post
- White House Is Cutting Rare-Earth Research at the Wrong Time — Thomas Black, Bloomberg
- Mamdani's Ideas Have Been Tried Before - and Worked — Asli Aydintasbas, Politico
- Zohran Mamdani and the Tax-Hike Death Spiral — Allysia Finley, Wall Street Journal
- Trump Posts AI Video of Him Dumping Poop on Us. I Can't Believe I Wrote That — Rex Huppke, USA Today