More may opt to accept Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, but only when their personal political calendars allow it.
Health & Social Policy
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A Quiet Blockbuster
It wasn’t one of the civil-rights cases activists were clamoring for, but AMP v. Myriad Genetics may prove to to be one of this Supreme Court term’s most consequential rulings.
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What Will Republicans Do if Obamacare Turns Out OK?
It’s no use begging them to come up with new health-care plans, because they just don’t care.
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Our Bodies, Their Cells?
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether private companies can patent your DNA.
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Washington, Colorado, and the Headaches of a Legal High
The two states are creating the world’s first systems for legalized marijuana—and everybody’s watching.
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Bad Faith and Budget Politics
Obama has to do business with people who cannot be trusted to own up to their side of a deal.
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Face It: You’re Crazy (But So Is Everyone Else)
Critics fear the newest edition of psychiatry’s diagnostic manual will turn us into a nation of overmedicated zombies. But the truth is mental illness is far more common than we realize.
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The Military’s Suicide Scandal
It’s time for the top brass to stop feigning surprise and start addressing the mounting mental-health epidemic.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A Few Words about Angelina Jolie’s Breasts
Last thoughts on the celebrity’s op-ed in The New York Times this week
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Eight Months Until the End of Job Lock
A reminder about one of the best things Obamacare does.
