Government Shutdown

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

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.

For the first time in 17 years, our government is officially shut down.

Republicans, instead of working with Democrats to find a bipartisan middle road for the country, as they have traditionally done, have to compromise with and do the bidding of …

In the end, the Republicans won. A majority in Congress, made up of Republicans who understood they'd won and Democrats who feared a government shutdown, would have voted for …