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About emptywheel
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
Entries by emptywheel
More on the Max Tax
/23 Comments/in Health Policy, MaxTax/by emptywheelA bunch of outlets have now released Bad Max’s framework on health care.
Here are some ways to think of Max Tax:
Total amount a family of four making $67,000 would have to pay for health care, per year: $20,610 (31% of income)
Total amount that family of four would pay in fine if they did not get health care insurance:
Addington’s Direct Involvement in the Torture Memos
/97 Comments/in Torture/by emptywheelDaniel Levin, when he testified before HJC last year, said he did not speak with David Addington–or anyone else at OVP–during the drafting of his 2004 torture memo. He seems to have been the only torture memo author who did not communicate directly with Addington during the drafting of the memo.