This is GPS, the Global Public Square.

Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

I'm Farid Zakaria.

Today on the program, the longest federal government shutdown in American history ends.

We're on day 30.

New Trump-Ebstein documents come out, and New York City Mayor-elect Mamdani prepares to take office.

I'll talk about all of that and more with Bill Maher.

Also, the Trump administration skipped out on this year's major global climate conference.

What does this mean for halting climate change?

I'll ask an expert.

And finally, what life lessons can we learn from someone who has broken speed records

for running ultra-long races?

When that someone also happens to be a great journalist and businessman,

I'll ask the Atlantic CEO, Nick Thompson.

But first, here's my take.

It's hard to see how the government shutdown and reopening

is anything other than a defeat for the Democrats, a high-stakes

confrontation that ended with their own goals unmet and their message muddled. If they didn't

have the leverage or were not willing to use it to prolong the shutdown, then why did they stage

it at all? The shutdown reinforced the image of the Democrats as feckless.

They promise wonderful sounding new programs, free childcare,

but in fact preside over bloated bureaucracies and inept execution.

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