- No Quick Deal, but Offer by G.O.P. on Debt Shifts the Tone—"President Obama and House Republicans failed to reach agreement on a short extension of the nation's borrowing authority during a White House meeting, but both sides agreed to keep talking." NYT
- Obama Hard-Line Debt Stance Rooted in Anger Over '11 Impasse—"Shortly before President Barack Obama was re-elected, he confided to John Podesta, an informal adviser, a vow he was making for his second term: He would never again bargain with Republicans to extend the U.S. debt limit."
- An Exclusive Interview with Harry Reid: "Up is down, black is white."
- Nate Silver: The Six Big Takeaways From the Government Shutdown
- The Debt Ceiling—"Everything you need to know—in cartoon form—about debt-ceiling fiascos, from McKinley's war with Spain to Obama getting punk'd."
- The Radicalization of the GOP is the Most Important Political Story Today
- Republican Extremism and the Lessons of History—"This crisis is about nothing other than the Republican Party – its radicalization, its stunning lack of leadership and its disregard for the Constitution."
- The Day the Mad Dogs Took Over the Republican Party
- The Tea Party's Demands Are Not Unreasonable. They Are Impossible.
- Tavis Smiley Battles Hannity on Shutdown: GOP 'Thwarting the Rule of Law,' 'Trampling' Constitution
- Tea Party secedes: The GOP civil war is over, and so is the GOP—"The Republicans are two different parties now -- how long will it be before the Tea Party becomes a third party?" Salon
- The Borowitz Report: Hostage-Takers Call Comparisons to Tea Party "Hurtful"
- The Republicans' worst poll yet—"The latest NBC/WSJ poll is just a disaster for the GOP." WaPo
- Fractured GOP Scrambles To Save Face Amid Brutal Shutdown Polls
- Why Republicans are losing the shutdown blame game—"When political parties look political to the public, they lose." WaPo
- Meet The 21 Republicans Who Back A 'Clean' Spending Bill
- Why Are Republicans Backing Off the Debt Ceiling? They Could Lose the House.
- Who Are These Guys?—"Eight votes that explain who House Republicans really are."
- The House GOP's Little Rule Change That Guaranteed A Shutdown
- Braves Fan Mocks GOP For Shutdown: 'Just Because The Dodgers Scored More Runs...Doesn't Make Them Right'—Scintillating sarcasm.
- The Last Days of the GOP—"We could be witnessing the death throes of the Republican Party."
- The Shutdown Probably Won't Kill The GOP in 2014
- Establishment GOPers Assail Tea Party On Shutdown
- The Tea Party Republicans' Biggest Mistake: Confusing Government With Our System of Government
- The Tea Party Is Damaging Its Credibility in the Way It Can Least Afford—"A faction that faces doubts about its ability to govern responsibly has foolishly associated itself with default and government shutdown."
- Sen. Mike Lee: No Apologies About Defund Obamacare Push—He's getting hammered in his home state.
- Gary Miller Shoves Cameraman For Question About Ending Shutdown
- Yoho: Furloughed workers should not get back pay
- Ted Cruz struggles to explain fiasco of his own making—The more people get to know him, the less they like him.
- Charles Krauthammer: Where is Ted Cruz now?
- The war between the Tea Party and K Street WaPo
- Wall Street Can't Influence Tea Party to End Shutdown, DC Watchers Say
- The Christian Right's Shutdown of Government—"The nation's economy is on the brink of Armageddon thanks to the most morally and intellectually stunted segment of the American experiment: the Christian Right."
- Christian delusions are driving the GOP insane—"Why aren't Republicans more frightened of a shutdown and a default? Part of the reason is magical thinking." Salon
- How Catholic Bishops Pushed for a Shutdown – and Even a Default – Over Birth Control
- Jon Stewart slams "spite" and hypocrisy of Republican "moocher" states Salon
- The Only Thing Republicans Really Hate About 'Obamacare' is 'Obama'
- Some families left out in the cold by Obamacare—"Obamacare is designed to make health care affordable for everyone, but several million families could get caught in a loophole in the law that leaves them out in the cold."
- Obama Signs Bill To Pay Military Death Benefits During Shutdown
- Halved paychecks force the furloughed to slash expenses and take loans, second jobs WaPo
- Food Lion Steps Up After Shutdown Of NC WIC Funds
- Women and Children First -- Thrown Overboard by the Government Shutdown
- Government shutdown forces 90 percent staff cut at nuclear regulator. Don't panic.
- French lawmakers ban child beauty contests—"Beauty pageants have a proud tradition in France but there are limits to what French lawmakers will accept. On Tuesday senators banned children's beauty contests to prevent the 'hyper-sexualisation' of kids, promising tough sanctions for those who break the law."
- Muslim groups oppose ban on child marriage
- 'Breast ironing': Girls 'have chests flattened out' to disguise the onset of puberty—"Barbaric custom that takes place in Cameroon may have been imported to the UK."
- Girls in Pakistan see Taliban victim Malala as heroine—She won the Shakharov Prize, and she was up for the Nobel Peace Prize also.
- Education activist Malala Yousafzai totally brings it on "The Daily Show" Salon
- Taliban: We still want to kill Malala
- Nepal's slave girls—"Can the young girls forced to work in middle class homes across the country break the bonds of slavery?"
- Report: Child sex trafficking victims live in shadows
- U.S. drugs gangs turn to child sex trade in Washington area
- Study: 10 Percent of U.S. Youths Cause Sexual Violence—"Females are just as likely to be perpetrators as males."
- I was sold by Mum and Dad to make images of child abuse
- Online blackmailers abused hundreds of British children
- Register Investigation: State blacks out records of problems at Iowa Juvenile Home—"Information withheld as secret shows reports of seclusion, mistreatment."
- Neighbors: Reports about abuse of 4 boys went unchecked by Denver Human Services
- Patriot Act author prepares bill to put NSA bulk collection 'out of business'—"Bipartisan bill pulls together existing efforts to dramatically reform the NSA in the wake of Snowden disclosures."
- In speech to telecom industry, NSA's Alexander criticizes coverage of surveillance WaPo
- Homeland Security is paying for MBTA buses to have the most advanced video monitoring system in the country
- FBI Says 20% Error Rate Okay for Facial Recognition
- Facebook to rip search opt-out from under those who were using it
