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Good news: HealthCare.gov's shop-only feature is now all you could wish
The Wall Street Journal's narrow view of narrow networks
The ACA is killing off a college plague: junk student insurance
Free market visionary foresees healthcare apocalypse
An all-too-hidden benefit in ACA insurance
What subsidy cliff? Jared Bernstein and Dean Baker defend the Affordable Care Act
The ACA's subsidy cliff for older buyers
Self-employed? That pre-ACA health insurance deduction is still there...
If only Obama would say what he's never stopped saying. If only he would do what he's done.
The long and the short of income inequality
Young, self-employed and seeking health insurance via the ACA exchanges? See an accountant
In which Ezra Klein shorts Avik Roy
The End of the End of History?
Obama's Mandela: man of interior action
An early proponent of leading from behind
Obama portrays a nation at risk in bid to reset national agenda
About that "toothless" Dodd-Frank reform...
"People analytics" should lead to better pay in all jobs
Just what is the United States retreating from?
Bypassing HealthCare.gov, cont
Red states' ACA exchanges: lab or slab?
Low-tech glitches on HealthCare.gov
Status quo Sunday at the New York Times
Working around healthcare.gov: summary
Working around HealthCare.gov, cont.
A private-market patch for the ACA?
The ACA as a framework for (further) conservative healthcare reform
More than just a website: state efforts to make the ACA work (and the lack thereof)
Joy eludes the Archbishop (Lewisian joy, that is)
Subtext to the WaPo healthcare.gov disaster narrative: Sabotage works
No, 93 million Americans will not lose their health plans under Obamacare
Will red states stonewalling the ACA pay for self-inflicted punishment?
"What if Obamacare works?" -- What Ross Douthat leaves out
A companion list to The Atlantic's "50 Greatest Inventions"
John G. Taft's evasive honesty
The Obamaquester according to Harry
Okay, so our problem is GOP extremism -- but what's driving that?
We're still in the sequester's grip
Forever young in the New World
Twas the Night Before Shutdown (complete)
Twas the night be shutdown...Twas the night before default, cont.
Twas the Night Before Shutdown...Twas the Night Before Default
Twas the Night Before Shutdown
What McConnell could cook up with Reid
The party that loses by winning
Reading Oryx and Crake in the time of debt ceiling brinksmanship
Maybe it doesn't matter, but...
The Civil War, a distant mirror for Obama
Do tell, NYT, of Israel's place at the US policymaking table
Does a clean CR mean a clean shot at Republicans?
The GOP is drunk on the proven power of extortion
In which Lavrov disavows the language of the Security Council resolution his country just agreed to
Democrats won't cave on Obamacare -- but on everything else...?
Flip the script, Mr. President
J Street can reason. The Anti-Defamation League merely emotes
But Greg Sargent, "handling and manipulation of process and theatrics" matter
So, Congress, how 'bout that AUMF?
America's "inward turn" is moderate and proportionate
Beyond disputin', an element of truth
Syrian site-setting in the Senate
Does Obama really need to choose whether he's a liberal or realist in Syria?
Did Nancy Pelosi (and Kerry) read Max Fisher?
The WSJ spotlights an apparent anomaly in ACA subsidies
In which Nicholas Kristof hurls a Hail Mary toward Assad
Obama's national narrative is a bit less triumphal these days
Great news! The debt ceiling deadline's been moved up
Democrats should shut down the government
Paul Krugman's moment of truthiness
Listen to Boehner, Dems. When he announces a negotiating strategy, he executes
Boehner's not retreating, he's doubling down
Detroit's destruction began in its heyday
Obama's drinking gourd ain't no Holy Grail
Snowden, patriot; Obama, in denial
Obama's drinking gourd ain't no holy grail
For state GOP officials, a manual for undermining Obamacare
Are "burn your Obamacare card" proponents incurring potential liability?
Read that NYT exposé of price gouging in joint replacements? Here's an antidote
Reminder: chained-CPI means new revenue
The happiest wrong I could ever be
Obama girds for nuclear budget war, cont.
In which "strategic advisor" Howard Dean attacks IPAB
By reframing national agenda, Obama hopes to "force a different result" in budget negotiations
My fantasy flashes in the news, flickers, fades
Is Obama preparing for nuclear budgetary war?
Could a "doc fix" have a bigger impact on U.S. healthcare than the ACA?
Why is McCain suddenly John So-New-New?
"Trayvon Martin could have been me"
Why I'm glad that Democrats didn't change the Senate rules
Nonsense question of the day: "Does Obama have a second-term strategy?"
"Government-run healthcare," Singapore style
Pulping the bully approach to presidential politics, VI
Who'll stop the hospital billing machine when you're "covered"?
An "introvert" in the White House
How does Roger Cohen know what Egyptians want?
OK, Krugman: How will hypocrisy help us?
The "I want the best" quality measure in healthcare
For Egypt, a warning from Aesop
In which Ezra Klein makes Avik Roy acknowledge why U.S. healthcare costs are so high
WSJ leans into the "rate shock" narrative for Obamacare
Children first in the acceptance of same-sex marriage
Civil unions are not marriage "in all but name"
Will we hear Obama in retrospect?
On Neustadt's gold standard for presidential power
Sweet spot for Obamacare exchanges: some competition, but not too much?
In which Bernstein's "anti-quagmire president" conforms to type
Healthcare consolidation perverted by pricing power
Did Obama just cross a Rubicreek in Syria?
Do past abuses of personal data point toward future abuses of NSA metadata collection?
Healthcare competition is good. Uniform pricing is better
The moral carpet bombing of Edward Snowden has begun
Intelligence's Heisenberg Principle
What Snowden sees, what Obama sees
Why would the president say no?
Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks, and Fish
Who might suffer "rate shock" under the Affordable Care Act?
Submerged state update: Obamacare's gift of the MAGI
Ben Bernanke's over-the-cliff notes
Poor infrastructure breeds its own etiquette
Take two: Employers want to provide health insurance
U.S. employers want to provide health insurance
Love the sin, hate the sinner or whatever
Another rung down for "Afghan good enough"
Obama on counterterrorism: will "redefines" become "unwinds"?
Kevin Drum's dangerous indulgence
Where Obama's Green Lantern lies
Does Obama subject African Americans to "targeted scorn"?
Obama gets personal at Morehouse
Two takes on Obama from Fallows
Are "liberals" learning to love the sequester?
Eloquent omission, Damian Paletta
I get nervous when I read sentences like this, cont.
Picking at the healthcare Gordian knot
Vietnam as glimpsed from Camelot
Intransigence got them the win. Intransigence keeps them from taking it.
Of consumer cathedrals and Catholic capitalists
A severed wasp: Democrats and the sequester
A different path for education reform
From what planet comes this one?
Two assessments of the Bush presidency
Obama on kinks in the arc of history
In which Alyssa Rosenberg scolds like it's 1562
In which Paul Krugman gets cutesy with causality
Obama calls out the cowardice caucus
Peace at Antietam, Carnage in Copley Square
Alyssa Rosenberg thinks Romeo and Juliet "hasn't aged well," but her complaints are ageless
The perceptual alchemy wrought by chained-CPI
The three-quarters GOP win on offer
When the public supports the president's position...then what?
Abraham Lincoln: African Americans secured their own liberation
In which Obama publicly negotiates with himself
In which Alyssa Rosenberg scolds like it's 1562
Here comes Obama's new centrist budget...much like his old centrist budget
Chait all wet on high-stakes testing
Back to basics with gay marriage
David Frum raises a crucial non-issue for Democrats
HHS guidelines for privatized Medicaid expansion
Guess what happens when you tie teachers' (and administrators') pay directly to student test scores?
A hat-tip to ARRA for the freight rail boom
Two presidents on popular sovereignty
Look what the GOP can get for $300 billion
I get nervous when I read sentences like this
The counter-scenario: Republicans cave on sequestration
Jack Goldsmith's disillusionment
The truest thing you will read today
Political science consensus judgment of the day
Learning to love Obamacare, cont.
Medicare for all, or Obamacare for seniors? Or both?
Speaker for the dead? Nasr indicts Obama's AfPak policy in Holbrooke's name
As God gave him to see the right
How long have we known the truth about the Cuban missile crisis?
Did the two-year budget war just end with a GOP victory?
The tax-cutters' eternal advantage
Is there a displaced rational basis for blaming Obama?
Yes, Team of Rivals was Tony Kushner's "principal source" for Lincoln
About that conservative soft spot for means-testing
Woodward is peddling a nonsense conclusion. Why?
No, Bob Woodward, the White House did not move the goalposts on the supercommittee's charge
Breaking: U.S. senior benefits means-tested
What would Simpson-Bowles 2.0 do to Medicare?
The paradox of power, immigration reform edition
In which Obama induces false memory in Fallows, and I name that tune
David Goldhill, consider our dental dystopia
Some thoughts about drone strikes and detention
The white paper defines "imminent" correctly. Now what?
Will the 'doc fix' revolutionize U.S. healthcare?
The xpostfactoid service employee mandate
Obama and further deficit reduction
Syncophants, shills and charlatans at work
Wait, Jonathan Bernstein has a point
What exactly is the danger for Obama in chasing the "liberal Reagan" mantle?
Yes, Reagan did change the trajectory
Obama, child of 2008, father to man of 2013
Meet the new Obama -- same (mostly) as the Old Obama
Our liberal history: Obama's oldest trope
Obama strips his credo to essentials while widening his net
A lawyerly second inaugural, or a piece of the president's heart? Or both?
Three professors of false equivalence look at the Obama-Boehner faceoff
Geithner sees no evil in the bubble
Passive aggression against Netanyahu
Progressive consensus and debt ceiling scenarios
"Not this time": Obama revises himself
Julianna Goldman questioned Obama's debt ceiling cred to his face. His response...
The next debt showdown...I see it!
The real budget battle: voucherize Medicare, or IPABize it?
Boehner's whining is finding an audience
Who's more scared of the sequester?
McConnell clears the way for more revenue hikes
The liberal Reagan of the Wall Street Journal's imagining