The nightmare facing Washington

Congress has papered over the cracks. But it won't be long before America once more comes unstuck.

The US pulled back from the brink this week, but the underlying problem won't go away. Seldom, if ever, says Max Hastings in the Daily Mail, "has the chasm between the sophistication of America's East Coast and the primitive passions and thought processes of middle-American lawmakers yawned wider".

You can paper over the cracks, but eventually they'll tear, says Justin Webb in The Times. "Political America appears to be boiling with fissiparous rage."

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