A fascinating look at the hundreds of thousands of letters Jackie Kennedy received in the immediate aftermath of her husbands assassination. They take us back behind the veil of nostalgia and conspiracy theory to a country united in mourning but already fractured over the civil rights movement and its possible role in Kennedy’s murder.
There are actually right-wing groups paying big money to convince young people in Alaska not to sign up for health insurance.
Great enterprise piece about how rogue ‘insurance’ providers are telling customers they’ve found a way to get around Obamacare regulations and still sell “junk” insurance policies. Important read on what’s happening down on the ground.
TPM Reader T(heda) S(kocpol) on the President’s ‘fix’ and the big picture on the bumpy roll out …
I doubt that the Obama people think this newly announced move is really a fix. It deflects blame and buys time, simply because even with various Dems defecting on this or that vote or bill, as they surely know many will, Congress won’t be able to act on this issue any more than it can act on any other.