| View on the Web. |  | Wednesday, June 5, 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. |  | Here is the latest from the Plan B battle: The White House has lost its bid to delay a ruling that makes emergency contraceptives available to women and girls of all ages. Three judges from the United States Court of … Continue reading →
It’s happening: The Washington Post is putting up an online paywall. Well, not so much a “paywall” as a “paymeter.” You can read 20 articles a month for free. According to traffic data, most of you don’t read 20 articles … 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 →
There’s a far better case right now for being an infrastructure hawk than a deficit hawk. Deficit hawks tend to have two worries. The first is a practical concern about interest rates. Too much government borrowing can, in a healthy … Continue reading →
The race to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve is on. But this is a curious sort of race: We don't know for sure who is running in it, or how the outcome will be judged, or when … Continue reading →
Congressional Research Service reports aren’t generally the cause of political dust-ups. The agency is known for its rigorous yet completely dispassionate analysis of everything from national security threats to budget policy to Congressional procedure. At one hearing I attended three … Continue reading →
In 1971, an American military analyst named Daniel Ellsberg gave a New York Times reporter a copy of “United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense,” a multi-volume work that became known as the … Continue reading →
What does zapping a frozen burrito in the microwave have to do with tackling climate change? Quite a bit, it turns out. Last week, the Department of Energy announced a little-noticed update to its energy-efficiency standards for microwave ovens. And there … Continue reading →
Two years ago, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) was on the supercommittee, trying to hash out a multi-trillion-dollar deficit reduction package. Three months ago, she was proposing (and, later, passing) $1.85 trillion in additional spending cuts and revenue-raiser. So it was … Continue reading →
Patent trolling has gone mainstream. Last year, small companies began receiving threatening letters from firms with inscrutable names, such as AdzPro LLC, AllLed LLC and GosNel LLC. The senders claimed to own a patent that covered the concept of scanning … Continue reading →
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