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President Barack Obama speaks about Affordable Care Act at The Fairmont Hotel on June 6, 2013 in San Jose, Calif.
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Health Care Reform: And Now, The Selling of Obamacare

This fall, Obamacare will go into full effect, with the promise of insuring as many as 40 million Americans if it succeeds. But it could still fail

James Gandolfini, 1961-2013: A Made Man Who Made TV Great

TIME's James Poniewozik says that Gandolfini, with his performance as a suburban mobster in The Sopranos, wrote the blueprint for the modern, complicated TV antihero

Bernanke Says Little, Market Plummets

Welcome to the post-QE economy

Privacy Tools Grow in Popularity

NSA controversy boosts tools that offer more privacy

Prospects for Peace With Taliban

The omens don't augur well

The Harm in Calling Obesity a Disease

The label is meant to help, but it may prove self-defeating

New York's Bike Share Improves

But now demand may be outpacing supply

Boehner in a Bind on Immigration

Passing the bill may be his trickiest challenge

Brazil's Protests Reveal Region's Fumbling Elites

Latin American citizens are demanding equal rights

The Great, Belching Black Hole

It eats gas, burps X-rays

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