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A Look at the Numbers Behind Obamacare

Some state governors have submitted requests to President Obama's Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, right, asking for more information about how the Medicaid expansion will affect their...

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Many Governors Veto State-Run Health Care Exchanges

Last week saw an important milestone on the road toward implementing the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare: Friday was the deadline for states to let the Department of Health and Human Services...

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When Hospital Workers Can’t Afford Health Care

We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The following is an excerpt from Nation contributor Greg Kaufmann’s “This Week in...

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Morning Reads: Catastrophe… and Real Lightsabers!

Happy Tuesday morning! Here’s some of the stuff we’re reading this AM… Welcome to the shutdown… WaPo’s Brad Plumer runs down everything you need to know about how this actually works. Last night at...

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The Right’s Obamacare Rhetoric Is Completely Detached from Reality

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at a rally in front of the WWII Memorial Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) The old saying that ‘you’re welcome to your own opinions but not...

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Morning Reads: You May Pay JPMorgan’s Fine and the WH Tweeter

Good morning and happy Mole Day! Here are some of the stories we’re looking at this morning at Moyers & Company HQ… Rabioso! –>Mexico isn’t terribly pleased with the revelation that the NSA...

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Morning Reads: Diebold Indicted and Pepper-Spray Cop Gets Paid

Good morning! Here are some of the stories we’re reading this AM at Moyers & Company HQ… Buck stops there –> Norm Ornstein writes at the National Journal that the bungled ACA rollout reflects...

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Morning Reads: Grand Bargain Dead; Racism on The Daily Show

Happy Friday morning! The weekend starts in mere hours and until then, here are some of the things we’re reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Clown car –> The ACA websight could really use some...

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Rash of Lazy, Sensational Reporting is Freaking People Out About Obamacare

Credit: iStock A rash of sensational, context-free reporting is needlessly alarming the public about what’s happening in America’s health insurance markets as a result of Obamacare. Making matters...

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Morning Reads: Swedish Billionaires and a Nuclear Option

Good morning — and happy Friday! Here’s a roundup of some of the stories we’re reading this AM as we come down from our Halloween sugar-high… Go-and-frisk –> Appeals court blocks lower court’s order...

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Morning Reads: Rand Paul Wants a Duel; Liberal Billionaires’ Campaign Cash

Happy Monday morning! Yeah, that doesn’t sound quite right. Anyway, here are some of the stories we’re reading at Moyers & Company HQ this AM as we rev up for a new week… Now it’s real –> WaPo’s...

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Morning Reads: Election Day and Alien Life

Happy election day! A political nerd’s favorite day of the year. Here’s some of the stuff we’re reading this AM before heading to the polls… Big win for a big man –> TNR‘s Nate Cohn ponders what...

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Morning Reads: Walmart’s Worst Nightmare and Pensions for Dogs!

Good morning! Here are some of the stories we’re reading at Moyers & Company HQ as we get ourselves in gear… Not the NSA! –> Charlie Savage reports for the NYT that the CIA is paying AT&T...

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Morning Reads: Three Election Nail-Biters and Life Behind Bars for Petty Crimes

Good morning! Today is Kindness Day — how will you celebrate? While you’re thinking it over, here are some of the stories we’re reading this AM… Liz smash! –> Elizabeth Warren unloads on...

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Morning Reads: The Arctic 30 and the Origins of Dogs

Good morning! Here are some of the stories we’re reading as we get caught up for a new week… Spineless –> Robert Reich tears into Democrats for panicking over substandard insurance policies being...

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Morning Reads: EuroDrones and the Lobbyists’ Lobby’s Rebranding Effort

Good morning! Here are a few of the stories we’re reading over our coffee this AM at Moyers & Company HQ… Nadir? –> Public approval of Obama and his signature legislative achievement both hit...

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Morning Reads: Reid Nukes the Senate; Stephen Colbert on Okla-hetera

Happy Friday morning! The weekend is fast approaching. In the meantime, here are some of the stories we’re reading this AM at Moyers & Company HQ… Nuclear winter –> WaPo’s Ezra Klein offers nine...

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Jacob Hacker on Obamacare’s Rocky Rollout and Our Frail Democracy

Jacob Hacker, director of Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies, is one of the most astute political analysts around. His 2010 book, Winner Take All Politics, co-authored with Berkeley’s...

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Morning Reads: Chimps Sue Humanity as Congress Considers a Mini-Bargain

Happy Tuesday! Here are some of the stories we’re reading here at Moyers & Company HQ this morning… Grilling –> Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to be questioned by UK parliamentary committee...

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Morning Reads: RIP Mandela; Gun-Nuts Take on the NFL

Happy Friday morning! Welcome to the last stop before the weekend. Here are some of the stories we’re reading around the office on this sad morning… RIP, Madiba –> Paul Taylor, who was the WaPo’s...

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Morning Reads: NSA Staffers Gloomy; David Simon Says US is a “Horror Show”

Good morning! Here are some of the stories we’re reading as we gear up for the new week… Litigious –> Tim Murphy reports for MoJo that Republican lawmakers are increasingly turning to the courts in...

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Morning Reads: Gun-Toting Teachers and a Looming Debt Limit Fight

Good morning! Today is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day — what will you cover in chocolate? While you’re mulling over your options, check out some of the stories we’re reading this morning…...

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Morning Reads: Tea Partiers Feel Besieged; Jamie Dimon Perpwalk?

Good morning! Here are some of the stories we’re reading this AM at Moyers & Company HQ… “You have to fight” –> So said one activist after the DC Council unanimously passed a living wage bill,...

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Study: Refusing to Expand Medicaid Hurts People of Color the Hardest

This post first appeared at ThinkProgress. States refusing Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion will disproportionately harm minorities — particularly African-Americans who tend to reside in GOP-led southern...

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Morning Reads: Buffett Buys Wind Power; Little Upward Mobility in the South

Happy Friday morning! Your weekend is fast approaching. Here are some of the stories we’re reading as the media start to slow for the holidays… Love wins –> New Mexico becomes the 17th state to...

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Morning Reads: Religious Right Enters GOP Civil War; Calls for Snowden’s Pardon

Good morning, and a belated happy New Year! Here are some of the stories we’re reading as we get back into the groove for 2014… Blocked –> The AP’s Jesse Holland reports that Justice Sonia Sotomayor...

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Morning Reads: Liberal Gun Clubs; GOP Civil War Flares Up in Ohio

Good morning and happy Friday! Here are some of the stories we’re reading at Moyers & Company HQ this AM… Our Town working as usual –> Anna Palmer and Byron Tau report for Politico that K Street...

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Morning Reads: Obama to Give Fed Contract Workers a Raise; 20 Kids Are Shot...

Good morning! Here are some of the stories we’re reading as we try to keep warm on a frigid morning in NYC… He’s got a pen and a phone –> NYT’s Peter Baker reports that Obama will announce in...

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Behold: A Republican Health Care Plan

(Jose Pelaez/ Ap Images) In their quest to repeal Obamacare, Republicans have faced two political problems. First, while the Affordable Care Act isn’t a popular law, polls show that the idea of simply...

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Morning Reads: NSA’s Role in Assassinations Exposed; “Crybabies of the 1...

Good morning! Today is National Clean Out Your Computer day, but we all know it’s not going to happen. Here are some of the stories we’re reading as we kick off a new week… Stat of the day: Chicago...

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Morning Reads: Adelson Looks for a Safe Bet for 2016; Obama Trolls Tea Partiers

Good morning! On this date in 1911, 145 workers, many of them immigrants, died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in New York City, unable to escape the locked doors of the sweatshop. The...

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Morning Reads: 10 Poverty Myths, Busted; Is Impeachment a “Stealth” Issue in...

Good morning! Happy National Spinach Day, and a happy 83rd birthday to Leonard Nimoy! He’s lived long and he’s prospered. Stat of the day: 69 percent — share of voters who say they would be “more...

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Morning Reads: Ugly Islamophobia in TN; A Major Corruption Case in CA

Good morning! Here in New York, they’re forecasting a stretch of ten days with temperatures in the mid-40s to low-60s. We didn’t make The Weather Channel’s, “Ten Cities That Barely Survived the...

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Morning Reads: Obamacare Deepens Blue/Red Divide; Hobby Lobby Funding a...

Good morning! Thirty-five years ago today, reactor number two at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant came perilously close to melting down, terrifying the American public and helping...

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Morning Reads: How the Right Took Over Arizona; Another Cheney Talking Point...

Good morning! It’s April Fool’s Day — try not to get too crazy out there. Saber-rattling –> Russian military drills 150 miles east of Finland are making the Finns nervous, report Alexander Smith,...

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Morning Reads: SCOTUS Strikes Down Campaign Limits; Republican Asks How Equal...

Good morning! Here are some of the stories we’re reading on a somewhat slow news day… Stat of the day: 42 percent — reduction in Kentucky’s uninsured population as a result of Obamacare, according to...

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Morning Reads: Jon Stewart Rips McCutcheon; Ryan’s Roadmap May Set Up Wall...

Good morning — and happy Friday! Today marks a tragic moment in our history — it’s the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. McCutcheon… Andy Kroll reports for MoJo that...

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Morning Reads: Climate Change Deniers Kill Study; Rand Paul: Cheney Pushed to...

Good morning — and a happy 60th birthday to Jackie Chan! Today is World Health Day so try to do something healthy — do it for the world. Supreme oligarchy –> In his latest for WaPo, E.J. Dionne...

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Obamacare Is Widening the Gap Between “Red” and “Blue” America

Red and blue state map, based on returns in last four presidential elections. (Wikimedia Commons/ Angr) The fact that the citizens of “red” and “blue” states live in what are essentially two countries...

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Morning Reads: Study Finds Most Fox News’ Climate Segments Inaccurate; “Chris...

Good morning! Here are some of the stories we’re reading on a gloomy morning in NYC… Two-faced –> Eli Clifton reports for Salon that while Big Pharma was publicly backing the ACA, it was privately...

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Morning Reads: SEC Bosses Too “Timid” to Target Wall Street Fraud; $15...

Good morning! Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant 149 years ago today. It took a while for word to get around that the war had ended – the last American killed in the conflict is believed to...

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Morning Reads: “Could We Become Mississippi?”; Vermont Moving Toward...

Good morning! Here are some of the stories we’re reading on a beautiful spring morning in NYC…  Apathy –> Charles Blow writes in the NYT that we should be outraged by the fact that it’s easier than...

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Morning Reads: GOP ‘Scandals’ Run Into Trouble; CBS’ Colbert Pick Sparks Outrage

Good morning — and happy Friday! Today is both National Pet Day and National Cheese Fondue Day. Warning: We don’t recommend giving your pet cheese fondue. Sebellius out –> After five years...

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Morning Reads: Climate Change for Cheap; Where Your Tax Dollars Go

Good morning! (Sorry it’s Monday.) And a happy Passover to those who celebrate it… Stat of the day: 900 — the number of environmental activists who have been murdered worldwide in the past decade,...

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Morning Reads: Deadly Right-Wing Extremism; Hank Aaron Attracts Racist Hatemail

Good morning! On this date in 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act, freeing around 3,000 slaves in DC. Nine months later, he would go on to sign the Emancipation Proclamation....

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Morning Reads: Koch Bros Attacking Solar Power; Modern-Day Slavery in Alabama?

Good morning — and a happy 88th to Queen Elizabeth! She probably starts her day with our Morning Reads, right? Bloodshed –> Moscow and Kiev are trading blame for a shootout that left at least three...

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Morning Reads: Stewart Shreds Hannity for Supporting Deadbeat Rancher; Happy...

Good morning — and happy Earth Day! NatGeo offers a brief history of the movement. Here are 10 planetary facts for Earth Day, courtesy of Slate’s Phil Plait. At The Nation, Jeremy Brecher argues that...

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Morning Reads: Domestic Terror Flares Up; Will Corruption Kill VA’s Medicaid...

Good morning! At a congressional hearing held 60 years ago today, Joseph Welch, a lawyer representing the US Army, was stunned when Senator Joe McCarthy claimed that an attorney at his firm was a...

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Morning Reads: Germany Boots CIA Chief Over Spy Scandal; UAW Gets Toehold in TN

Good morning — and happy Friday! On this date in 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded his nemesis Alexander Hamilton during a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. Duels were not uncommon, but...

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Americans Like Obamacare — Just Don’t Call it “Obamacare”

Holding a sign saying “We Love ObamaCare,” supporters of health care reform rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, March 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)A rose by any other name may...

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