If you never had to stay late for a security lockdown, are you really a congressional intern?

If you never had to stay late for a security lockdown, are you really a congressional intern? While a moderate representative holds a health care vote hostage, a bomb threat traps four interns in a cramped office where they reckon with the cost of change from within. THIS IS GOVERNMENT, written by Nina Kissinger, finds dark humor in a crisis (where we arguably need it most), and posits what can happen when people’s leaders play politics with their lives. Maybe some situations just can’t be defused.