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It's Not Over Yet: More Looming Debt Crisis Deadlines
Congress faces two deadlines with long-term repercussions in the next few weeks — and another debt-ceiling time bomb in the coming months.
February 12, 2013
Lori Montgomery: "The Next Fight Is Going to Be Far Uglier"
Washington Post reporter Lori Montgomery discusses the long path of gridlock and how the debt and deficit showdown has hurt both sides. "Two years of fighting has not been good for anybody," she tells FRONTLINE.
February 12, 2013
Frank Luntz: How the "21st-Century Republicans" Changed Washington
GOP insider Frank Luntz reflects on the new face of the Republican Party, the strengths and weaknesses of the president and what he sees as the dismal prospects for the nation to come together. "We can’t agree on anything," he tells FRONTLINE.
February 12, 2013
Meet the GOP's "Young Guns"
Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan, three young House Republicans, had a plan to move the party away from the dusty establishment and into the 21st century.
February 12, 2013
Egypt's Fractured Revolution Two Years On
Two years after the fall of Mubarak, Charles M. Sennott returns to Egypt to find some of the revolution's biggest leaders bitterly divided, and reflecting on some of the mistakes made along the way.
February 11, 2013
Did Obama "Poison the Well" in the Deficit Debate?
After Republicans rallied around an austere budget proposed by the party's numbers wunderkind Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, President Obama delivered a speech condemning the plan. What he didn't realize, his aides insist, was that Ryan was sitting in the front row.
February 11, 2013
From the Serenity Prayer to F-Bomb: Boehner and the Fiscal Cliff
On one of the biggest nights of his political career, House Speaker John Boehner didn't have the votes he needed from his own party. So he gathered House Republicans in a closed-door meeting and led a prayer.
February 8, 2013