| View on the Web. |  | Friday, June 28, 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. |  | The Obama administration wants to require all employer-sponsored health insurance plans to cover contraceptives without co-payments. Some employers, largely on religious grounds, do not want to cover contraceptives in any form. Finding a middle ground between the two position is no … Continue reading →
The zombies in the new film "World War Z" are too fast to be truly scary. That may be a sacrilegious observation in some nerd circles, but it's a key insight derived from epidemiology and, zombies aside, it has serious … Continue reading →
Welcome to Health Reform Watch, Sarah Kliff's regular look at how the Affordable Care Act is changing the American health-care system — and being changed by it. You can reach Sarah with questions, comments and suggestions here. Check back every Monday, … Continue reading →
This has been a strange week in the annals of Federal Reserve communication, as a parade of the central bank's leaders have come forward to, in effect, offer a corrective to the impressions about the Fed’s stimulus policy that financial … Continue reading →
If you had any doubt that Abenomics is working in Japan, just look at some of the cultural artifacts emerging from this fruitful time in that nation’s history. Here, for instance, is a synchronized dance routine performed by fruit. The … Continue reading →
Bitcoin burst into mainstream attention after Gawker wrote about the online drug marketplace Silk Road in 2011. Silk Road uses Bitcoin, with its decentralized, anonymity-friendly architecture, to shield its users and operators from law enforcement scrutiny. That’s important because Silk … Continue reading →
By its very nature, covert intelligence work creates almost insoluble problems for a democracy. In a democracy, after all, power is exercised with the consent of the people. If the people don't know about the powers being exercised, they can't … Continue reading →
Centuries ago, in the Andalusia region of Spain, bar patrons would cover their glasses of sweet sherry with bread to keep flies from flying in. The bars started putting cured meats on top of the bread, turning the fly-protection devices … Continue reading →
All right, with any luck, everyone’s reached the end of Ira Katznelson’s "Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time". So let’s discuss Part IV in comments. A few points to kick things off: 1) The 1940s were … Continue reading →
Good news for the White House: Lots of people know about Obamacare. The bad news: Those people aren’t necessarily the ones the White House believes really need to know about its sweeping health reform efforts. This comes from the latest Gallup … Continue reading →
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