published May 16th 2016, 6:02 pm, by Greg Stohr (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Supreme Court backed out of a divisive clash involving religious groups that object to contraceptive coverage under Obamacare, issuing a compromise decision that said the two sides might be able to work out their differences. Releasing an

published Jun 16th 2016, 3:58 pm, by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg View) — The Supreme Court is supposed to take appellate cases to make the law clearer. Today’s opinion on health-care fraud had the opposite effect. Instead of spelling out exactly when a misrepresentation in health-care billing counts as a legal

published Jun 16th 2016, 6:00 pm, by Rich Miller (Bloomberg) — From the immediate possibility of Britain leaving the European Union to the longer-term consequences of aging populations, the world’s major central banks this week just aren’t sure what to do next. Officials from the U.S., Japan, the U.K. and

published Jun 14th 2016, 1:54 pm, by Toluse Olorunnipa and Jennifer Epstein (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama launched a broadside rejection of Donald Trump’s demand that the U.S. label Muslim terrorists as “radical Islamists,” arguing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee risks emboldening America’s enemies and antagonizing an entire faith. In

published Jun 15th 2016, 12:26 pm, by Sahil Kapur and Ben Brody (Bloomberg) — The National Rifle Association said Wednesday it is willing to meet the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump amid a potential disagreement between the two allies over gun rights for people who are placed on terrorism

published Jun 15th 2016, 4:17 pm, by Steven T. Dennis (Bloomberg) — Senator Marco Rubio said he will consider running for re-election this year after all, amid an effort by fellow Republicans to persuade the former presidential contender not to give up his Florida seat. A Rubio run would be

published May 31st 2016, 10:30 am, by Cass R Sunstein   (Bloomberg View) — Thirty-nine years ago, on May 25, 1977, a movie was released with a somewhat ridiculous name: “Star Wars.” (It’s now called “Episode IV: A New Hope.”) Almost no one thought that it would do well, and

published Jun 14th 2016, 8:00 am, by Matt Levine (Bloomberg View) — LinkedSoft. The most terrifying slide in the investor presentation for Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn features this bubble: The archetypal joke about the deal is an image of the old Microsoft Clippy saying “I’d Like to Add you

published Jun 14th 2016, 5:43 pm, by Alison Vekshin (Bloomberg) — California has overtaken France as the world’s sixth-largest economy, fueled by strong growth and the U.S. dollar’s gains against foreign currencies, state data released Tuesday show. The most-populous U.S. state, with a gross domestic product of $2.5 trillion, has

published Jun 13th 2016, 4:58 pm, by Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — Peabody Energy Corp. is set to pay President Barack Obama’s Harvard Law School mentor $435,000 this year to help the bankrupt coal producer challenge the administration’s signature environmental law. The payments to Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law expert