- GOP scrambles to develop new plan to end shutdown, avoid default—But they're still talking with the White House. WaPo
- Republicans Intent on Keeping Hostage Power Forever
- Klein: Baby Boomers Ruined The Government—"The U.S. can lay the blame for its current political mess at the feet of my generation."
- Top 10 states hurt by the government shutdown
- Government shutdown is already doing severe damage—Won't someone think of the children! (For realsies.) WaPo
- Shutdown's Quiet Toll, From Idled Research to Closed Wallets—"Even if a deal to end the shutdown is reached soon, the stalling of scientific research and the disruption of federal workers' spending patterns could have a lasting impact." NYT
- Statue of Liberty, Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore to reopen
- Exchange program gives Russians a glimpse of a democracy hardly at work WaPo
- G.O.P. Helps Americans Like Government—""There' nothing better than shutting down government to remind people of how much they need it." NYT
- Democrats vs. Republicans vs. Tea Partiers
- McCain To Fox News: No, The Shutdown Is The GOP's Fault—In other news, Rep. Gohmer has implied the senator supports Al Qaeda.
- McConnell: I'll 'Work With The Government We Have, Not the One I Wish We Had'
- Senate GOP growing impatient with House
- Who is responsible for the US shutdown? The same idiots responsible for the 2008 meltdown—"In opposing Obamacare, the radical-populist right exposes its own twisted ideology."
- The GOP's Civil War About Nothing
- How The Mighty Republican Party Became So Ignorant
- 'It's Hard to See How Boehner Gets Out of This': Dick Armey on the Shutdown
- Shutdown Takes A Toll On GOP In Virginia Governor's Race
- Why Republicans should be very, very afraid
- The shutdown probably won’t hurt Republicans in 2014. Here’s what will. WaPo
- Conservatives defiant in the face of GOP troubles
- The Tea Party's Government Default Fantasy—"Right-wing politicians think it's no big deal if the federal government fails to pay its debts. What planet are they living on?"
- Obamacare Foes Using Shutdown Echo South’s Nullifiers—"The Tea Party-inspired drive to derail Obamacare is anchored in a place where opposition to the federal government is as old as the nation: the American South."
- Cruz scoffs at NBC/WSJ poll: 'That's not reflective of where this country is'—The return of the GOP poll unskewers.
- Democrats Must Stop Ted Cruz's Hollywood Ending
- Cruzification of the GOP WaPo
- Steve Pearce Tells Furloughed Workers To Take Out Loans To Pay Bills—Out of touch millionaire.
- RedState's Erick Erickson Vows To Help Boehner, McConnell's Opponents
- 'Truckers to Shut Down America' Shut Down by Traffic—One of the organizers of the failed event [WaPo] believes Obama is Osama Bin Landen in disguise.
- The Right Wing Fifty Years Later: The John Birchers' Tea Party
- Some Dems Say Medical Device Tax Repeal Is A 'Moronic' Idea
- Now You Can Go Window Shopping For Obamacare Coverage
- Obamacare's balky Web sites endanger its launch WaPo
- Federal health exchange sending confusing enrollment information to insurers WaPo
- Hollywood writes a new storyline for Obamacare—"Hollywood Health and Society, part of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, has created a health care-information pipeline straight to the entertainment industry."
- False equivalence: how 'balance' makes the media dangerously dumb—"We've seen it in climate change reporting; we see it in shutdown coverage. Journalists should be unbiased, yes, but not brainless."
- No, MSM, 'Both Sides' Are Not to Blame for the Republican Shutdown of the U.S. Government
- It's Not Just Political Districts. Our News Is Gerrymandered, Too.—"The government shutdown reflects a political system that reinforces extremism. The news media system isn't much different lately." NYT
- PolitiFact to launch PunditFact, checking pundits and media figures
- How Rush Limbaugh Shaped The GOP's Shutdown Woes—According to him, Obama reached back in time to make this mess the GOP's in.
- Truth in the Age of Niallism—"Harvard historian Niall Ferguson still thinks bluster can substitute for facts."
- MSNBC President Wants 'Investigation' Into Fox News' 'Impossible' Ratings Gain
- New York State penalizes, bans 'payday' loan collectors
- McDonald's Employee Confronts Executive: I Can't Afford Shoes For My Children—She got arrested for trespassing, but at least she got her message out.
- Unpaid Intern Is Ruled Not an 'Employee,' Not Protected From Sexual Harassment
- Why Your Startup Can't Find Developers—Money quote: "I know one well-known startup who has been trying to fill a role for over four months, and has gone through two dozen candidates, simply because the founder mandates 80-hour workweeks." Fuck that shit.
- Americans Would Rather Remain Unemployed Than Work for Companies with Bad Corporate Reputations
- Report: Foxconn using forced student labor to build Sony's PS4
- I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss
- Swedish pensions dump 'union-busting' Walmart
- Town in Michigan Whacks Homeowners for Appealing Wal-Mart Decision
- Brazil: Walmart is ordered to pay R $ 22.3 mn per damage
- The Myth of Executive Stress—"How tough is it, really, to be the boss?"
- He got 1%, we can't hire him—"The psychometric test was supposed to produce a 'true' reflection of how someone saw themselves..." and if they were a good fit with the company.
- Spaniards are less productive, constantly tired because Spain is in the wrong time zone WaPo
- Bosses respond to the dancing YouTube quitter—"Staff at the former company of Marina Shifrin, the woman who danced her resignation, respond on YouTube (by dancing and taking their pants off). Were they all told to dance or else?"
- 1 in 5 U.S. Workers: I'm Too Educated for My Job—"Actually, that's not so bad, by international standards."
- World Bank Whistleblower Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World
- How Redistribution to the Rich Has Broken the Back of America
- Are Americans dumb? No, it's the inequality, stupid—"The US and UK have pitifully low OECD test scores. They are also the countries with some of the greatest inequality."
- Pension-Fund Looters Get Tax Breaks, Too
- Richmond's rules: Why one California town is keeping Wall Street up at night WaPo
- Charges dismissed in last cases from Occupy Wall Street march
- N.Y. Fed Fires Examiner Who Took On Goldman Sachs
- The Wall Street Protection Racket: Pay the Government Fines and Bankers Don't Get Prosecuted
- Big bank fines aren't working—"The penalties are greater than ever, but financial firms keep turning profits -- while the rest of us pay." Salon
- HSBC money-laundering fine: key players—"Where are the bosses who presided over HSBC's years as banker to drug lords, terrorists and rogue states?"
- New York to Sue Wells Fargo Over Mortgage Settlement NYT
- How Jamie Dimon's Getting Away With It—"Why the biggest fines in regulatory history are no problem for JPMorgan Chase's CEO."
- This is America's worst regulator (and JPMorgan's best pal) — Thomas Curry Salon
- CNBC Jumps Shark, Drops Pretense And Does JPMorgan Damage Control Live
- How I botched it on CNBC—"It was fun TV, but I didn't make an argument that could penetrate the profit-fixated bubble of the finance press." Salon
- The $4 Billion Question: Do We Value JPMorgan More Than Consumer Protection?
- JP Morgan is spending more on fines and lawyers than on employee salaries
- Jamie Dimon Books First-Ever Loss at JPMorgan
