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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 30, 2014
Boehner dismisses talk of impeaching Obama
Republicans have no plans to begin impeachment proceedings against President Barack Obama, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner declared on Tuesday, putting the blame on Democrats for stirring up pre-midterm election tensions in Washington.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 1, 2014
The Affordable Care Act isn't Obama's 'Iraq'
The new signup numbers — 6 million and counting — on the U.S. Affordable Care Act exchanges make it clear that the roll-out of the bungled federal website didn't destroy the law and probably didn't cost President Barack Obama much in lasting public opinion.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 31, 2014
The Affordable Care Act's four-word Waterloo?
If the defense of a state prerogative, filed in federal court by Oklahoma's attorney general, succeeds, the decline of Obamacare will accelerate.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 14, 2014
Markets take a back seat under gesture liberalism
Building the Volt hybrid car was bailed-out General Motors' gesture of obeisance to its Washington masters when, in fact, U.S. auto sales have cruised back to 2007 levels thanks to Americans' fondness for pickup trucks and SUVs.
COMMENTARY
Jan 5, 2014
Obamacare took a beating in 2013, and this year could be worse — for the law and Democrats
As bad as 2013 was for Obamacare, the year ahead has the potential to be even worse — for the law, the Obama administration and congressional Democrats.
Japan Times
WORLD / YEAR IN REVIEW 2013
Dec 25, 2013
A look back at the year's top 10 world news stories
Japan Times editors selected these world stories as the most important of 2013.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2013
Obamacare shows Americans are growing callous
The challenge Democrats face is finding a way to convince people that helping their neighbors is still worthwhile even as the median voter becomes less likely to agree.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 22, 2013
ACA website to New Yorker: drop dead for now
The not-typically-quotable U.S. House Speaker John Boehner does have a point when he asks how we can we tax people for not buying Obamacare from a website that doesn't work.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 22, 2013
U.S. health site got OK despite flaw warnings
Days before the launch of President Barack Obama's online health insurance marketplace, government officials and contractors tested a key part of the website to see whether it could handle tens of thousands of consumer users at the same time. It crashed after a simulation in which just a few hundred...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 11, 2013
Meet the man who plotted America's shutdown
As an appetizer before helping to send the U.S. government into famine mode, Ted Cruz railed against Obamacare on the Senate floor last month in a publicity-seeking speech that lasted more than 21 hours and included a Darth Vader impression and reading Dr. Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham" as a bedtime story...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2013
Crashes, sticker shock mark Obamacare shopping
Last week I spent six hours shopping for Obamacare on New York State's health care marketplace website. Officials had estimated that it would take the average person seven minutes. Either because I am not an average person or because the Obamacare people are idiots, I spent six hours setting up an account....
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2013
The U.S. Civil War continues
A big hoax of American history is that the Civil War ended in 1865. Unfortunately it continues — as a battle over redistributing shares of economic power in the clothing of cultural values.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 9, 2013
Tea party embraces a proven loser
Tea party-affiliated Republicans in the U.S. House are gearing up again, this time on a grander scale, to threaten action that will end up helping the other side.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 1, 2013
11 pieces of not-so-conventional wisdom on Obamacare
As we approach the Great Unveiling of Obamacare, Americans are going to see a lot of these talking points repeated as if they're facts. Most of the talking points are not dead wrong — they could be true. But they're considerably more uncertain than most pundits seem to think.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 23, 2013
Obama's toughest campaign yet: selling health care reform
Deep inside the White House, in a bare room that the chief of staff uses for meetings, David Simas is still thinking about turnout.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 16, 2013
Inconvenient truths about Obama's health law
The White House's recent decision to delay part of its health care overhaul illustrates six truths about the law that its supporters can't easily acknowledge.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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