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Opinion
Yes He Can, on Immigration
It has been frustrating to watch President Obama’s promises on immigration reform fade to protestations of impotence and the blaming of others.
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Automobiles
A Few Auto Industry April Fools’ Day Pranks
Every April 1, automakers and automotive publications crank out a few silly jokes and pranks in celebration of the world’s strangest celebration.
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N.Y. / Region
Proposal Would Provide New York Police With Kits to Combat Overdoses
State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman on Thursday is expected to announce a push to have law enforcement officers carry a drug that is effectively an antidote to overdose.
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U.S.
To Strike at Kochs, Democrats Revive Tactic That Hurt Romney
As they did successfully in 2012 against Mitt Romney, Democrats are painting the Koch brothers as indifferent to the struggles of ordinary people.
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U.S.
Now in Driver’s Seat, Patrick Credits Grass Roots
Dan Patrick, the radio host and state senator, credits his success to popular support, but his front-runner status has been built on lessons learned navigating old-school politics.
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U.S.
With an Eye to Detroit’s Woes, Illinois Moves to Ease Chicago’s Pension Problems
The state legislature approved a plan put forth by Mayor Rahm Emanuel that would presumably include a property tax increase for Chicago residents.
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Automobiles
Wheelies: The Car Tipping Edition
Hooligans tip Smart cars around San Francisco; some Toyota factories replace robots with people.
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World
South Korea Tests Missile Able to Strike Most of North
The launching by South Korea comes after Pyongyang conducted a series of its own missile tests, raising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
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N.Y. / Region
Holder, in New York City, Calls Terror Trials Safe
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said that last week’s conviction of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith had “proven beyond any doubt” that terrorism trials can “safely occur” in New York City.
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U.S.
State Officials Cite Technology Problems on Health Insurance Sites
Officials in five states said that their health insurance exchanges had been hobbled by problems like those that bedeviled the federal marketplace.Three Legs Good, One Leg Bad
The good news for Obamacare just keeps coming in. Via Charles Gaba, the Rand Survey — which was the subject of a report in the LA Times, but which wasn’t publicly available — is now in.
And it says that as of mid-March — that is, before the final enrollment
surge — the Affordable Care Act had already produced a net gain of 9.3
million insured adults. Again, that’s a net gain; so much for claims that more people are losing insurance than gaining it.
At least some Republicans are realizing that
(a) the ACA is not going to collapse and (b) they can’t simply take away
insurance from millions of Americans. So they have to come up with an
alternative.
And as Sahil Kapur reports,
at least a few of them are coming to a terrible realization: there is
no alternative. You can’t just support the popular pieces of reform, in
particular coverage for preexisting conditions, and scrap the rest. As
Jonathan Gruber taught me, and I and others have said many times, reform
is a three-legged stool that requires community rating, the individual
mandate, and subsidies; take away any leg and it collapses. And Kapur
finds a GOP aide who admits to the awful truth: any workable GOP plan
would look pretty much the same as Obamacare.
I don’t know how many GOP leaders, as opposed
to aides, understand this. And even those who do won’t dare to admit
it. The party line, literally, has been that Obamacare is an unworkable
monstrosity, and the base will destroy anyone who points out, this late
in the game, that it’s both workable and pretty much the only doable
alternative to single-payer.
And if that’s not a case of politics making people stupid, I don’t know what is.."
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Sports
Contador Takes Opening Basque Stage
The former Tour de France winner Alberto Contador unleashed a late attack to win the opening stage of the Tour of Basque Country.
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World
Delays in Effort to Refocus C.I.A. From Drone WarThis second case is Elane Photography v. Willock, which I wrote about a month ago.
Despite avowals about the need to refocus the agency on its original missions of analysis, intelligence collecting and espionage, the paramilitary operations have proven hard to give up.
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World
Kenya: Islamic Leader Is Killed
A radical Islamic leader who had been accused by the United States and the United Nations of supporting the Shabab, a Somali militant group, was assassinated late Tuesday.
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Business Day
Cities Advance Their Fight Against Rising Inequality
Cities across the country are considering proposals to tackle income inequality, but experts say localities have little control over the policy tools that could make the biggest impact.
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World
Facing His Torturer as Spain Confronts Its Past
José María Galante says he was tortured by an infamous enforcer of the Franco dictatorship in the 1970s. He is seeking to prosecute the man in an Argentine court.
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World
Iran’s Choice for U.N. Post Fuels Tension With U.S.
Washington has yet to announce a decision on a visa for Hamid Aboutalebi, a diplomat with links to the group behind the 1979 hostage crisis in Tehran.
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Automobiles
Wheelies: The Non-Detroit Electric Edition
Detroit Electric announces a move to the Netherlands; Ford says it will cut the work force at a Russian plant by 70.
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Opinion
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