Why America Is Fighting About Immigration
Relative peace and prosperity cause issues of identity to rise to the fore.
Government shutdowns are a useful window into what really matters to politicians. It’s one thing to say you care about an issue. It’s another to care about it enough to tell hundreds of thousands of federal employees to stay home, and to risk the political blowback that arises when their absence starts wreaking havoc on ordinary Americans’ lives.
So it’s noteworthy that, according to , the federal government has shut down because of
