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Winning the Shutdown

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On November 4, 2025
Trump is starting to freak out that he will lose the shutdown: President Donald Trump on Tuesday pressed Republicans to do away with the filibuster in the Senate, warning that failing to do so would cost his party control of Congress and the White House...
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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 13: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (C) (D-NY) meets with newly-elected Democratic senators-elect Kyrsten Sinema (L) (D-AZ) and Jacky Rosen (R) (D-NV) in his office at the U.S. Capitol November 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. Both Sinema and Rosen were formerly...

Pass That Popcorn

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On January 25, 2019

It's really sad to hear reports of Republicans senators yelling at each other over the shutdown. Republican senators clashed with one another and confronted Vice President Pence inside a private.

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General Strikes and the Shutdown

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On January 25, 2019
With Sara Nelson, head of the flight attendants union, calling earlier this week for a general strike to end the shutdown, I have a piece in The Atlantic discussing the history of general strikes in the U.S. and the challenges and potential of such an...

Sickout

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On January 17, 2019

The great labor historian Joseph McCartin, author of Collision Course, the best book about the air traffic controllers strike of 1981, is absolutely correct here. It may well be that.

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