Using a government shutdown as a political bargaining tactic was popularized in 1995 by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and conventional wisdom holds that it backfired on his party. So ever since, ...

It's 2 PM on a Tuesday, and Anukriti is three floors deep in a government hospital, notebook in hand, observing clinicians. "I need to understand how they actually work," she explains. This scene ...