A Border-Wall Compromise
We are nearing the end of day 28 of the longest partial US government shutdown in American history. By most media accounts, and observing Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi, there is no end in sight. The costs are already enormous and threaten to become more so as time goes on: About 800,000 federal employees are forgoing regular income, although now with a commitment to backpay once this ends. Federal contractors whose livelihoods, on the other hand, depend on such cashflows have