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  • Will young people buy expensive Obamacare insurance?

    Michael Barone

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    One essential feature of the insurance policies encouraged by Obamacare is that they require the young and healthy to subsidize the old and healthy. Policies available to young people, especially for young men, will be much more expensive than currently. The question is: will they choose to buy...

  • Michael Barone: Low-skill workers may get 'low-benefit' plans under Obamacare

    Michael Barone

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    Would you like to have a "skinny" health insurance policy? Probably not. But if you're employed by a large company you may get one, thanks to Obamacare. That's the conclusion of Wall Street Journal reporters Christopher Weaver and Anna Wilde Mathews. They report that insurance brokers are...

  • Dearth of female CEOs a huge problem?

    Michael Barone

    Yesterday

    The excellent Anne Applebaum has a fine article in the New York Review of Books, reviewing Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” and Hanna Rosin’s “The Rise of Women and the End of Men.” It makes several interesting points and is definitely worth reading in...

  • Question: What do female medical students think of abortion?

    Michael Barone

    Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013

    Noemie Emery has an excellent article in the latest Weekly Standard on the case of Kermit Gosnell, the abortion provider who has been sentenced to life in prison on three counts of murder. She raises the issue of whether the spotlight on this late-term abortionist–a spotlight shined only...

  • Michael Barone: Obama's IRS and AP scandals cast Big Chill on free speech

    Michael Barone

    Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

    Chilling effect. That's the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech. There have been plenty of examples in the past 10 days. The Obama administration's Justice Department issued a sweeping demand...

  • The higher ed bubble is bursting (continued)

    Michael Barone

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    Higher education enrollments this spring are down 2.3 percent  from spring 2012, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. That’s more than the 1.8 percent decline between fall 2011 and fall 2012. One reason may be that the job market is getting (slightly) more favorable. But I...

  • Michael Barone: In defense of Jason Richwine and Charles Murray

    Michael Barone

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    My American Enterprise Institute colleague Charles Murray came to the defense of our former colleague Jason Richwine, who resigned from the Heritage Foundation amid protests about his Harvard Ph.D. thesis, on nationalreview.com. Charles was entirely accurate in stating that Richwine’s...

  • Who’s ahead in Virginia governor race? No one

    Michael Barone

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    With a Chris Christie victory in New Jersey’s governor election a foregone conclusion, the one question mark in the November election is who will win the race for governor of Virginia? Recent polls suggest this is very much up for grabs. A Washington Post poll conducted from April 28 to May 2...

  • Justice flak in regular contact with Media Matters

    Michael Barone

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    It’s not entirely a coincidence that the left-wing Media Matters has been parroting and advancing Obama administration talking points. It turns out that the Justice Department’s lead spokesman has been in frequent email contact with Media Matters personnel. The Daily Caller has the story.



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