Obamacare, Failing Ahead of Schedule  —  THIS is not the column about the Obamacare rollout I expected to write.  —  If you had told me, months ago, that weeks after the health care law's coverage expansion went into effect I would be writing about the problems its launch had exposed …

Marco Rubio: Obama Has Undermined Immigration Reform By Refusing To Defund Obamacare  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) suggested on Sunday that President Obama's refusal to compromise with Republicans on Obamacare to re-open the government and raise the nation's debt ceiling has jeopardized …

Even Oprah isn't on board with ObamaCare  —  As the White House was gearing up to sell ObamaCare to the American people last summer, Valerie Jarrett, the president's pointwoman on a host of issues, phoned Oprah Winfrey.  —  She invited the Queen of All Media to join celebrities …

Obamacare figures leave a lot unsaid  —  About a half million people have taken the first step toward enrolling in Obamacare health coverage, creating applications on the exchanges, administration officials said late Saturday.  —  The “almost half million” figure the officials reported …

Pelosi: ACA site problems ‘unacceptable’  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that the glitches and technical problems that have plagued the rollout of President Obama's landmark health reform law were “unacceptable” and have to be fixed.

Fiscal Crisis Sounds the Charge in G.O.P.'s ‘Civil War’  —  After the budget standoff ended in crushing defeat last week and the political damage reports began to pile up for Republicans, one longtime party leader after another stepped forward to chastise their less seasoned, Tea Party-inspired colleagues who drove the losing strategy.

Alan Greenspan still thinks he's right  —  Steven Pearlstein is a business and economics columnist for The Washington Post and a Robinson professor of political and international affairs at George Mason University.  —  Alan Greenspan's last book, “The Age of Turbulence,” …

Jeb Bush urges Cruz to show ‘self-restraint’  —  Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said in an interview airing Sunday that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) needs to “ have a little bit of self-restraint” if the Republican Party is to succeed in repealing ObamaCare.  —  The brother of former President …

Tentative Deal Hands JPMorgan Chase a Record Penalty  —  JPMorgan Chase and the Justice Department have reached a tentative $13 billion settlement over the bank's questionable mortgage practices leading up to the financial crisis, a record penalty that would cap weeks of heated negotiating …