Tag: Commentary

Aetna's "threat" was nothing more than Aetna responding directly to a specific question DOJ had asked, and explaining how the insurer needed additional market power in order to survive life in the exchanges. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Aetna and HHS find Obamacare’s exchanges are a treacherous playground

Timothy P. Carney · August 19, 2016 3:06 am

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Byron York: From Donald Trump, a stunning admission and a new direction

Byron York · August 19, 2016 1:12 am

The photo these two candidates used was actually of British suffragettes Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst. (Photo via Twitter)

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Dem candidates use photo of U.K. suffragettes to commemorate 19th Amendment

Ashe Schow · August 18, 2016 9:06 pm

"Women must grapple with systems, practices and policies that are designed for the majority of the incarcerated population: Men," the report states. (AP Photo)

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New study highlights overlooked jail population: Women

Daniel Allott · August 18, 2016 6:46 pm

Clinton has boasted about the work she supposedly did as first lady to help create Early Head Start. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)

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Did Clinton really help create the early government preschool program?

Jason Russell · August 18, 2016 5:26 pm

Why are colleges getting more and more involved in the personal lives of students? (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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When ‘safe spaces’ become segregation

Ashe Schow · August 18, 2016 5:19 pm

Enough time has passed for most Americans to "find out what's in" the over-hyped and under-delivering law. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

P.S. Obamacare: Five years later

Robert Ehrlich · August 18, 2016 4:04 am

The FCC is playing a part in the "Godfather" movie. (iStock Photo)

When the FCC makes you an offer you can’t refuse

Eric Peters · August 18, 2016 4:03 am

Untruths, when repeatedly spread on traditional and social media, quickly become embedded in the public psyche, especially when members of Congress seem content to wave a magic rhetorical wand declaring the appropriations bills earmark-free and move on. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Pork is alive and well

Thomas Schatz · August 18, 2016 4:03 am

Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt had skills, not fully appreciated in their times, that made running a big government and being president in your seventies look easier than they are for most people. (AP Photos)

Today’s candidates don’t measure up to Roosevelt and Reagan

Michael Barone · August 17, 2016 10:11 pm

Aetna's pullout of the Obamacare exchanges in 11 states was "retaliation" to the administration blocking the insurer's merger with competitor Humana, Democrats charged Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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DOJ demanded Aetna explain how merger-block would affect the insurer’s exchange participation

Timothy P. Carney · August 17, 2016 8:43 pm

The California legislature is considering a bill that would make it a felony for prosecutors to intentionally withhold or falsify evidence. Currently, these things are a mere misdemeanor. (AP Photo)

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This proposed California law might actually be good

Ashe Schow · August 17, 2016 7:27 pm