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By Dylan Matthews
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The best sentences we read today
"Neither side really knows what would happen if you could legally buy a packet of rhino horn in the pharmacy like Tylenol."
Stop celebrating our falling deficits
It's as if we took all the good ideas people had to help the economy and reduce the deficit and did the opposite.
After 37 years, U.S. chemical-safety laws may finally get an overhaul
A big new Senate bill would revamp a much-criticized 1976 law governing the chemicals in everything from crib mattresses to water bottles.
Fluoridation fails in Portland by 20-point margin
This was, according to the Oregonian, the fourth time the city has voted against fluoridation since 1956.
You ask, we answer! Can employed people get Obamacare subsidies?
"Will my family be eligible for subsidies? And if so, can I only access them if I sign up for a health exchange plan?"
Robert Kaiser on Dodd-Frank: ‘This example of Congress working also illuminated why it works so rarely.’
Post associate editor Robert Kaiser discusses his new book, "Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution works, and How it Doesn't"
Everything you could possibly need to know about student loan budgets (with gifs!)
Why an arcane debate about how much loans cost the government actually really, really matters.
Bad news for patent trolls, in one chart
For a quarter century, the courts placed no meaningful limits on what could be patented. That's beginning to change.
Bernanke to Congress: Seriously, guys, what are you doing?
The Federal Reserve chairman thinks Congress is getting it backwards on deficit reduction.
Yes, heads should roll at the IRS
It's hard to fire civil servants. But that doesn't mean it can't, or shouldn't, be done.
Millions of Americans don’t have bank accounts. That could be a problem for Obamacare.
Americans shopping for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act next year might hit an unexpected obstacle: The requirement to have a bank account.
Wonkbook: A thaw in the Senate?
Two remarkable things happened in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday.
The best sentences we read today
"Anyone who was alive 2,000-3,000 years ago is either the ancestor of everyone who’s now alive, or no one at all.”
A short history of violent tornadoes in the United States
Severe tornadoes don't seem to be getting more common in the United States. But more and more people are living in tornado zones.
Five things we learned from Tuesday’s big Apple tax hearing
Claire McCaskill really loves Apple products, and four other revelations about the corporate income tax.
The IRS controversy isn’t about taxes. It’s about disclosure.
Even if tea party groups' nonprofit status applications had been denied, there's no way they would have paid real taxes. They just would have had to disclose donors.
Self-driving cars are a privacy nightmare. And it’s totally worth it.
Critics are right to argue that self-driving cars will make it easier for the government to track our every move. But the technology will be so useful that it'll be worth it.
Study: Election officials are biased against Latino voters
People named "Greg Walsh" are likelier to get a reply from their local election officials than people named "Luis Rodriguez."
Swastikas and ‘witch hunts’: On the front lines of the fluoride wars
"Anti-fluoride members of the community hired private detectives to find some 'dirt' on the Superintendent and were ultimately successful in driving him out of town."
The National’s new album is out! Here’s one song.
Public radio station WFUV recently had the band play one of its new tracks, "Graceless," in its Cutting Room Studio.