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Rania Khalek: Government shutdown means halting social services while maintaining NSA spying, deportations and continuing drone strikes in Afghanistan.

As negotiations remain stalled, Imara Jones of Colorlines.com looks at who is being hardest hit by the shutdown.

The GOP's trying to solve the problem it has created for itself by offering the administration something they both seem to want: Social Security cuts, and perhaps benefit reductions …

Republicans in Congress are like a dog that chases cars and finally catches one. There is a fleeting sense of accomplishment, followed by sheer panic.

The U.S. government has begun a partial shutdown for the first time in 17 years after Congress failed to break a partisan deadlock by a midnight deadline.

Republicans are shirking their sworn duty by both shutting down the government and threatening to default on its bills.

One of the major misunderstandings of this budget mess is that it's about Republicans just running around willy-nilly screaming “nonononono” like toddlers having a temper tantrum. I know it …

Despite Republicans insistance that Democrats are “focused on birth control and sex rather than making sure the government doesn't shut down,” it's becoming clear that women will be harmed …

Republicans are exercising the one power that the American People have not yet been able to take away from them: the power to destroy.

The trade agreement President Obama will be urging this week be passed on a fast track that will not give Congress time to read and study it, the Trans …