- “The Obama administration has beaten a monthly health insurance enrollment target for the first time, according to data released Wednesday showing that more than 1.14 million people signed up for health plans in January in the new insurance marketplace.” [WashPost]
- “Hundreds of thousands of Americans in poorer counties have few choices of health insurers and face high premiums through the online exchanges created by the health-care law, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal of offerings in 36 states.” [WSJ]
- “Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in frequent contact with President Obama and senior White House aides before the disastrous launch of the federal ObamaCare exchange last year.” [Hill]
- ObamaCare enrollment groups learn that the website won’t work on National Youth Enrollment Day. [BuzzFeed]
- “A civilian NSA employee recently resigned after being stripped of his security clearance for allowing former agency contractor Edward Snowden to use his personal log-in credentials to access classified information…” [NBC]
- G.O.P. Senate leaders avert debt ceiling crisis. [NYT]
- Senate Conservatives Fund levels harshest attack yet on Mitch McConnell. [WashExaminer]
- Hillary Clinton’s to-do list [Politico]
- The rise of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker [Slate]
- “Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, will announce a deal to buy Time Warner Cable in a blockbuster merger worth about $45 billion…” [TIME]
- “The greatest compliment we can give Derek Jeter, as he prepares to leave the grandest stage in baseball, is that he never let us down. He has made thousands of outs and hundreds of errors and finished most of his seasons without a championship. Yet he never disappointed us.” [NYT]
- Pass the sick bag—Derek Jeter’s farewell tour [TIME]
- Prettier in print
- Cover: “The Diploma That Works: Inside the six-year high school” by Rana Foroohar
- “Obama’s Legacy Project: The president returns to his roots in the fight for criminal justice” by Michael Scherer; Maya Rhodan
- “Mexico’s New Mission: It’s the hot new emerging market. But can President Peña Nieto and his team of reformers really turn their country around?” by Michael Crowley
- “Biden Unplugged” by Zeke Miller
- “How Your Personality May Reveal Your Politics” by Jonathan Haidt; Chris Wilson
- “10 Questions with Johnny Walker: An Iraqi-born interpreter for the Navy SEALs talks about finding targets and then becoming one” by Belinda Luscombe
- RIP Sid Caesar, Your Comic of Comics [TIME]
Morning Must Reads: February 13
In the news: Obama administration beats monthly health insurance enrollment target for the first time; Snowden swiped password from NSA coworker; GOP Senate leaders avert debt limit crisis; Comcast to buy Time Warner; Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter to retire; what's prettier in print