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New Rule Expanding the Coverage of Birth Control

…The proposed rules also further reinforce plans’ and issuers’ responsibility to cover Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved, -cleared, and -granted birth control methods without cost sharing. This proposed rule comes in…

The Rule of Law: Compare and Contrast

…nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;…

Paul Waldman conflates two entirely different things about media coverage: media coverage of and about Trump himself and media coverage of Republican congressional policy proposals. He’s right about one of those things, but clearly wrong about the other.

…Congress to repeal the Obama administration’s rule under Dodd-Frank making financial advisers legal fiduciaries. In a story last week titled “Obama vetoes legislation to thwart financial adviser rule,” the Associated…

The Other Rule

Brad DeLong’s famous rule (Originally: “If you think Paul Krugman must be wrong, you severely overestimated Niall Ferguson“) needs a corollary. If Olivier Blanchard says your macroeconomic policy doesn’t work,…