- Barack Obama was the "winner": The showdown between the president and Republicans was a game with winners and losers
- 2013 shutdown politics: How Obama will make the debt fight a weapon against Republicans
- The irrational fear of President Obama—"They don't like him. They don't trust him. And they think he's destroying America." WaPo
- Shutdown to Cost U.S. Billions, Analysts Say, While Eroding Confidence—"It might take months to come up with a thorough accounting of the direct cost to the taxpayers of putting much of the government out of business." NYT
- Group demands GOP arrests for 'conspiracy against US'
- Call Them Out: The 7 Democrats Who Helped House Republicans Rig the Shutdown
- CNN's Blame-Both-Sides Shutdown Coverage Flopped
- The Right's Closed Information Loop May Set Up the Next Shut Down
- Republican defeat: the Tea Party should be over—"As a result of the US shutdown battle, Obama and the Democrats in Congress are much steelier characters." Time to repair the party [Salon].
- Republicans' hollow defeat—"President Obama won a total victory, but there's no sign that the far-right zealots have learned anything." WaPo
- Conservatives Misunderstand What Went Wrong Under Bush—"You'd swear from today's rhetoric that the problem was too much compromise. Nope."
- Conservative groups target U.S. Republicans who voted to end shutdown
- Mitch McConnell Is Now Tea Party Enemy No. 1
- Republican Civil War Erupts: Business Groups v. Tea Party—Will they really abandon them?
- The tea party's tantrum—"It is no coincidence that these same people deny the science behind climate change. When hard reality collides with their ideology, they ignore the reality."
- The Tea Party, by the Numbers
- GOP lawmaker voted against debt deal because he thought it funded Joseph Kony Salon
- Documents Taken from Meth House Implicate Tea Party Dark Money Group in MT, CO
- Ted Cruz knows exactly what he's doing—"James Moore says the anarchy that runs through the politics of Sen. Ted Cruz [NYT] should frighten Americans, whose government can now be taken hostage."
- The Ted Cruz Armageddon Is Coming—"A new Pew poll shows Tea Partiers' devotion to the otherwise divisive senator. Can the Republican establishment stop him before it's 2016?"
- Democrats Aim to Restore Immigration to Agenda—"The possibilities for progress on the issue will be determined in the House of Representatives, where many conservative Republicans are frustrated over their meager gains from the two-week shutdown." NYT
- Obama's Immigration Pivot Hits A Bruised GOP's Weak Spot
- Obama's devious plot to destroy the Republican Party by increasing its vote share among Hispanics WaPo
- Republicans Vow To Block Immigration Reform After Shutdown Fight
- U.S. used nonexistent Mexican law to deny citizenship
- Obamacare wins? See you in 2014
- 5 things that have happened since Obamacare launched
- Inside the Fox News lie machine: I fact-checked Sean Hannity on Obamacare Salon
- Healthcare.gov is sending insurers wrong data, turning an automated process into a manual one
- The Borowitz Report: Cruz Plans to Read Affordable Care Act—"Now that the government shutdown is over, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) plans to read the Affordable Care Act, he told reporters today."
- With little fanfare, Afghanistan War drags into 13th year
- Chemical Weapons Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize NYT
- To Ousted Boss, Arms Watchdog Was Seen as an Obstacle in Iraq NYT
- Muhammed Tanvir, New York Man, Put On No-Fly List After Refusing To Spy For FBI, Lawsuit Says
- Why Many Americans Are Averse to Unironic Expressions of Patriotism—"Cynical leaders use flag-waving as a way to manipulate."
- Rand Paul's Muslim-Bashing Speech—"The Tea Party senator's attack on Muslims was nothing short of 'hate speech,' says Dean Obeidallah, who compares Rand Paul’s words to the bad arguments and vitriol used by al Qaeda recruiters."
- Pentagon faked arrival ceremonies honoring fallen soldiers
- Air Force general in charge of nuclear weapons removed for lack of trust: defense officials
- New charges in Blackwater shootings—"The Justice Department on Thursday brought fresh charges against four former Blackwater Worldwide security contractors, resurrecting an internationally charged case over a deadly 2007 shooting on the streets of Baghdad."
- ACLU sues feds for hiding NSA spying from terror defendants—"Administration has never divulged to a single defendant that they were targeted."
- Edward Snowden: US would have buried NSA warnings forever—"Whistleblower says he shared information with media because he could not trust internal reporting mechanisms."
- British Government Increases Attacks On The Guardian—Cameron's fascist tendencies are showing.
- These GCHQ revelations show we need a parliamentary inquiry into mass surveillance—"The laws we have now were written before something like Tempora was possible. It's not the Guardian that needs investigating, but our system of oversight."
- How the NSA and FBI foil weak oversight—"Unless Congress imposes new limits on state surveillance, it's inevitable agencies will go on abusing our liberties and privacy."
- Dianne Feinstein's Bragging About NSA Surveillance Program May Finally Result In It Being Declared Unconstitutional
- US Isn't Collecting Only Electronic Data On You — Huge Biometric Database Under Construction, Too
- Decisions Driven by Undisclosed "Big Data" May Escape Civil Rights Scrutiny, Researchers Warn
- Media analysts in Syria debate have ties to defense contractors—Why transparency is important. WaPo
- The War Profiteers—"New study shows pro-war commentators have material interest in perpetual conflict."
- Pentagon's $5.5 Billion Dollar Shutdown Spending Spree
- Giant Pentagon Budget Is Unauditable Year After Year
- In Big Win for Defense Industry, Obama Rolls Back Limits on Arms Exports—In other news, US will sell $10.8 bln in missiles, bombs to Saudis, UAE.
- Military Waste and Fraud Are the Main Cause of Our Problems
- Boeing caught selling used parts as new to Pentagon
- The Army's $5 billion New Uniform Already Being Replaced—"Eight years after spending $5 billion on a heavily-criticized universal camouflage pattern, the Army is back at the drawing board looking for a new design that's estimated to cost another $4 billion."
- Will the F-35, the U.S. Military's Flaw-Filled, Years-Overdue Joint Strike Fighter, Ever Actually Fly?
- Joe Rogan on the American War Machine
- Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes—"Using testimony from five detainees, this animated film reveals the daily brutality of life inside Guantánamo."
- Letters detail punitive tactics used on Guantánamo hunger strikers—"Newly declassified papers say hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay was 'broken' by a deliberate campaign to crush detainees' spirits."
- Obese Guantanamo prisoner 'should be released on health grounds—"A prisoner being held in Guantanamo Bay has put on so much weight his lawyers say he should be released."
- US won't fight release of ill Guantanamo prisoner
- Afghan war's approaching end throws legal status of Guantanamo detainees into doubt WaPo
- US has killed far more civilians with drones than it admits, says UN
- Documents show NSA involvement in drone program
- Drones! Learn how you too can be shut down by the federal government
- DOJ calls for drone privacy policy 7 years after FBI's first drone launched—"New Dept. of Justice report: We spent $5M on drones over almost 10 years."
- US to send drones to Japan; Tokyo agrees to pay $3.1B to move Marines from Okinawa
- Soon, Drones May Be Able to Make Lethal Decisions on Their Own
- Malala Yousafzai meets with the Obamas in the Oval Office—Yousafzai said she was honored to meet Obama and that she raised concerns with him about the administration's use of drones, saying they are 'fueling terrorism.'" WaPo
- The Psychotic Militarization of Law Enforcement
- America's police are looking more and more like the military—"A Defense Department program transfers military-grade weapons and vehicles to local law enforcement. It's the last thing we need."
- US police obtaining military vehicles to aid hunt for criminals
- Undercover Police, Just About Everywhere—"In response to the attacks on Sept. 11, New York City now has a sturdy legion of undercover officers who have taken up residence in many surprising regions of civic life." NYT
- Border Patrol Accused of Ongoing Abuses in Arizona—"The ACLU has filed an administrative complaint with the Department of Homeland Security expressing 'serious concerns' about abuses committed by Border Patrol agents during what are known as 'roving patrol' stops in southern Arizona."
- Canada: Farmer loses land battle, though military grants him one last harvest—"Fighting to save his beloved farm from Canada's elite soldiers, Frank Meyers is finally forced to surrender."
- Canada Sends Armed Paramilitaries to Clear Fracking Protest
- Audrey Tobias found not guilty in trial for census refusal over weapons-maker link
