WonkPM: Your afternoon update from Wonkblog for August 08, 2013

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View on the Web. Thursday, August 8, 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. Our new boss's politics, in one chart Friends describe Jeff Bezos — who bought the Washington Post on Monday — as a libertarian, which is borne out by his donations to back same-sex marriage and oppose an income tax in Washington state. But how does he stack … Continue reading → The District's Obamacare marketplace is psyched to insure Hill staff One big beneficiary of the decision to have some Congressional staff purchase health benefits on the new marketplaces may be the marketplace right here in the District. In rules published Wednesday, the Office of Personnel Management outlined how Hill staff … Continue reading → 94% of the world's nuclear weapons are in Russia and the U.S.   Just something to think about now that the two countries are bickering again. 85 million Americans lack dental coverage. Fixing that requires more than just money. Regular Wonkblog readers know that poor access to dental care is a national problem. By one estimate, 85 million Americans lack dental coverage. Tooth problems are leading causes of school absence, missed workdays, and emergency department use. Dental access problems … Continue reading → Forecasters are bad at forecasting, study finds A few days before important economic data comes out — housing starts, unemployment, durable goods orders, etc. — analysts guess where they’re going to end up. Usually, they’re not right on the money. And now, it turns out, their errors … Continue reading → Get excited, Washington: There are two new tiger cubs at the zoo! Yes, Lunch Break has been a little bit animal-heavy as of late. But we couldn’t pass up a live penguin cam, nor could we skip this video of the two new-born tiger cubs at the National Zoo. The twins were … Continue reading → Ten reasons the U.S. and Russia are at odds On Wednesday, President Obama canceled an upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a move my colleagues described as “a rare, deliberate snub that reflects the fresh damage done by the Edward Snowden case to an important relationship already in decline.” The … Continue reading → Is pot the new gay marriage? In a pretty dramatic reversal for someone who nearly became America’s surgeon general, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta has come out in favor of medical marijuana. While working on a documentary called “Weed,” he talked to people suffering chronic … Continue reading → The private sector is spending more on R&D than ever The other day, I posted this chart, which shows that private sector investment in R&D has been growing more slowly in recent years than it did in the 1980s and 1990s: That seems to provide evidence for the “Great Stagnation” … Continue reading → Do you understand health insurance? Most people don't. Clear your desk of your favorite health policy reads: This is a Wonkblog Pop Quiz. You didn’t know those happened? Well, that’s pretty much the point. A little while back, a health-care economist at Carnegie Mellon University rounded up 202 … 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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