WonkPM: Your afternoon update from Wonkblog for August 06, 2013

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View on the Web. Tuesday, August 6, 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. Obamacare supporters are doing lots of door-knocking. It might not work. Last week, I wrote about Enroll America's plan to go door-to-door to urge uninsured people to sign up for health insurance, in some cases returning a half-dozen times to convey the message. But will a knock on the door – or eight … Continue reading → Childhood obesity is falling, and the CDC has a map to prove it This map, out today from the Center for Disease Control, is startling, and good, news. It shows obesity among low-income preschoolers between ages 2 and 4 dropping in 19 states – and increasing in just three. This and other recent … Continue reading → What does Jeff Bezos usually do with the companies he buys? Well, the initial shockwave of The Post’s sale has passed, and we still don’t have much to go on in trying to figure out what comes next. Here’s a relevant question, though: On the theory that the paper is a … Continue reading → Don Graham explains why he's selling The Washington Post to Jeff Bezos Don Graham’s grandfather, Eugene Meyer, bought The Washington Post in 1933. His mother, Katharine Graham, led it to greatness in the 1960s and ’70s. He was publisher from 1979 to 2000. Today, he leads the Post company, and his niece, … Continue reading → You won't be eating a lab-grown hamburger anytime soon A hamburger grown in a laboratory costs about $330,000 to produce and tastes… well, only so-so for now. “The bite feels like a conventional hamburger," one taster reported Monday, but the meat tastes "like an animal-protein cake." Meh. Still, environmentalists are … Continue reading → Jeff Bezos is buying The Washington Post. Here's what you need to know about the sale. As you might have noticed if you’ve read The Washington Post in the past 24 hours, the Graham family has sold us to Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Here’s what we know about the whole situation. The Post is … Continue reading → I asked three chefs whether they'd consider using lab beef. They were not amused. Last night on MSNBC’s “All In,” I asked three chefs whether they could imagine using the test-tube burger — or its down-the-road, cheaper-and-better-tasting descendants — in their restaurants. Nope! Even the mad food scientist Homaro Cantu backed off: But perhaps this isn’t … Continue reading → Here's what Amazon lobbies for in D.C. By now, everyone’s heard that Jeff Bezos has bought The Washington Post. This is the same Jeff Bezos, of course, who also founded and runs Amazon, a sprawling company that has plenty of policy interests in D.C., as well as a … Continue reading → Wonkbook: Ready for Washington Post Prime? So, uh, anything interesting happen at your office yesterday? Wonkblog had a lot of coverage of the Bezos sale last night. Here are some facts about the sale from me, and a look at the economics from Neil Irwin, and a more elegiac meditation from Jim … Continue reading → Why The Washington Post isn't a charity case for Jeff Bezos If Don Graham were not such a serious person, his announcement this afternoon that Jeff Bezos was purchasing his family’s company might have seemed like a joke. The Post seems so very old media for the phenomenally innovative tech entrepreneur. … Continue reading → 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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