A flood of scandals, Angelina Jolie's mastectomy, and more

POLITICS Will the IRS, Benghazi, and AP scandals kill Obama's second-term agenda? By harold maass The one-two-three punch certainly has the president on the defensive business How doctor-owned hospitals are circumventing ObamaCare By carmel lobello Despite Washington's efforts to limit their growth, many doctor-owned hospitals are thriving POLITICS A flood of scandals engulfs Obama By Edward morrissey From spinning Benghazi to politicizing the IRS to spying on the AP, a raft of embarrassing revelations is crippling the president health Why Angelina Jolie chose to have a preventative double mastectomy By Chris Gayomali The 37-year-old actress didn't have breast cancer. But she was at a very high risk of getting the disease one day. entertainment Meet the mother from How I Met Your Mother By scott meslow After eight long seasons, the CBS sitcom has finally revealed actress Cristin Milioti as the never-seen mother at the heart of the show's narrative language 11 baby-naming trends of the past By arika okrent The whole cities-as-names thing goes back way farther than you think FROM OUR PARTNERS AT POLITICAL WIRE Senate Democrats weigh the nuclear option By Taegan Goddard Dems are seriously considering using the controversial tactic to prevent a GOP filibuster FROM OUR PARTNERS AT SLATE Should it be illegal to put human genes in animals? By daniel engber Attention, sane and insane scientists: Your experiments to create half-men, half-beasts may not be legal in every jurisdiction. SEE ALL CARTOONS SLATE WATCH: Studies show Facebook makes ending relationships harder POLITICAL WIRE Spying on reporters raises spectre of Big Brother NEWSER Will Smith: Jaden wants to be emancipated SALON How the Republican Party could go extinct NEW YORK MAGAZINE Mayor Bloomberg barely edges out Lena Dunham on list of world's most influential Jews       Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | privacy policy Copyright © 2013 The Week, All rights reserved.