WonkPM: Your afternoon update from Wonkblog for August 15, 2013

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View on the Web. Thursday, August 15, 2013 WonkPM is your afternoon update of the latest posts on Wonkblog. WonkPM is a supplement to your morning Wonkbook newsletter. If you'd like to opt-out from receiving WonkPM, please click here. Why the U.S. should cut off aid to Egypt: An interview with Marc Lynch. After the Egyptian military cracked down on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday, the country has seen a series of violent clashes that have left at least 578 dead. That’s all led to renewed scrutiny of U.S. policy in … Continue reading → Here's what 'Breaking Bad' gets right, and wrong, about the meth business If you aren’t watching “Breaking Bad” at the moment, you need to reconsider your life choices and then you need to get thee to Netflix. Each season has been much better than the one that preceded it, and if that … Continue reading → Here's how Iran censors the Internet Is 'Little House on the Prairie' a libertarian parable? Christine Woodside’s piece in the Boston Globe on the influence of Rose Wilder Lane on her mother — Laura Ingalls Wilder — and the creation of the Little House on the Prairie series of books is absolutely fascinating. It turns out that … Continue reading → The Post just got hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. Here's who they are. Why the Justice Department blocked the American-US Airways merger For the last decade, the government has given the green light to a series of airline mergers for one basic reason:  the industry had fallen into a pattern of ruinous competition.  So many airlines were competing for passengers and market … Continue reading → The case against paying waiters in tips, in one irrefutable paragraph Jay Porter sums it up in Slate: Studies have shown that tipping is not an effective incentive for performance in servers. It also creates an environment in which people of color, young people, old people, women, and foreigners tend to get worse service than … Continue reading → This chart might make you feel better about American inequality If you read Wonkblog and similar sites, you’re probably pretty familiar with the basic stats on U.S. income inequality, and its startling rise. According to the CBO, before-tax/transfer income (including compensation like health coverage) grew by 21.6 percent between 1979 … Continue reading → The U.S. sends Egypt far more military aid than it needs The United States gives Egypt about $1.3 billion in military aid each year. And, so far this year, the Obama administration has been unwilling to cut off those funds — even in the midst of a violent military crackdown that … Continue reading → The roots of Egypt's violence Follow Ezra Klein:     You are receiving WonkPM as a supplement to your morning Wonkbook newsletter. If you no longer wish to receive WonkPM, or would like to unsubscribe from Wonkbook entirely, click here. ©2013 The Washington Post 1150 15th St NW Washington, DC 20071 Help & Contact Info Privacy Policy

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