Today’s Good Question is: Do other countries ever shutdown? Every few years those of us in the U.S. get to hear the threat of ...

The first US shutdown occurred shortly after in 1981, when President Ronald Reagan vetoed a funding bill, and lasted for a ...

Republicans and Democrats blame each other for the funding gap, and there is little sign either side is willing to compromise.

"Next to European health care and European urban planning," writes Clay Risen in the liberal journal Democracy, "the aspect of European life for which liberal Americans pine most often is the ...