Morning Reads: “Mind-Boggling” Bill Passes In TN; Was Detroit’s “Pension Crisis” Phony?
April 17, 2014

Via Moyers & Company:

Good morning! Today is National Haiku Poetry Day — you know what to do…

Stat of the day: 4 percent — share of Americans newly insured in 2014, according to Gallup.

Too big to jail –> At Newsweek, David Cay Johnston sums up a new Justice Department Inspector General’s report before slamming the Obama administration for doing “nothing to prosecute those who racked in billions through illicit banking practices.”

Rich and white –> At The Atlantic, Tom Levenson applies “the history of white supremacy in America to the Supreme Court’s McCutcheon decision.” ALSO: Norm Ornstein writes at Nation...

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