• Sen. Mike Lee’s Plan to Bolster Middle Class Parents (Reihan Salam at Reuters)
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• New Jersey’s Insane Ban on Self-Service Gasoline (Matt Yglesias at Slate)
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• GOP Deludes Itself on Shutdown Threat (Brian Beutler at Salon)
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• Fed Favorite Janet Yellen is No Dove – And That’s a Good Thing (Matt O’Brien at The Atlantic)

• What To Expect from the Huge Fed Meeting That Starts Today (Neil Irwin at Wonkblog)
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• The Republicans Who Are Learning to Embrace Obamacare (Jon Cohn at TNR)
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• There’s No Such Thing As Value Neutral Economic Choice (Kevin Drum at Mother Jones)
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• Washington Builds a Bugaboo (Andrew Ferguson at The Weekly Standard)

My heart and prayers go out to everyone affected by the tragedy at the Navy Yard today. I’ll have more on the media coverage of it at a later time.

• Can Smart Economics Turn Us Into Better Parents? (Derek Thompson at The Atlantic)
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• Three Reasons Christina Romer Should Be Fed Chair (Matt Yglesias at Slate)
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• Two New Polls Tell Us Americans Are Very, Very Confused About Obamacare (Sarah Kliff at Wonkblog)
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• Obama’s Syria Plan: Epic Botch of Brilliant Diplomacy? (Kevin Drum at Mother Jones)