Lin-Fan Wang takes on the danger of giving science and religion equal weight in the fight over the birth control mandate. Wang, a doctor who practices family medicine in the Bronx, writes: “The news coverage of the birth control benefit has been riddled with inaccurate statements, in particular, the allegations that the law requires coverage of abortifacients (medicine that causes abortion) or that the science is unclear on whether the FDA-approved contraceptives are abortifacients.”
What if you could get science to back your rather unscientific views by buying up a place on a college campus? That’s what the Koch brothers are doing at Boston’s Suffolk University, writes MIT’s Frank Ackerman.
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski totally shuts down co-host Joe Scarborough’s speculation about the missing Malaysia airplane: “If you want to go to a network that has theories about Pakistan just blared across for hours and hours and hours, you’ve got many choices out there.”
Remember the Democratic freakout over Obamacare that was supposed to happen following the Republican win in the Florida special congressional election earlier this month? Weeks later, it still hasn’t happened.
Sarah Erdreich: “This attempt to legislate the private lives and choices of others ignores the reality that giving women and men greater control over their reproductive health is good public health policy.”
Chris Christie’s own investigation finds that he did nothing wrong in the Bridgegate scandal.
Sahil Kapur looks at what Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once said about the role of religious liberty, and how he’ll have to jump through some jurisprudence hoops to attack Obamacare’s birth control mandate.
A press call touting a new pro-Rick Scott ad got cut short when reporters kept asking questions about an ex-finance chair who allegedly quit over staffers mimicking cartoonish Mexican accents.
“The Daily Show” was back last night after a week off, and Jon Stewart took the chance to mock CNN’s insane coverage of the missing Malaysian airplane. Watch it.