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FEBRUARY 4, 2015 bloombergview.com

DECLASSIFIED Eli Lake: "On the front lines of Iraq's war against Islamic State, it's increasingly difficult to tell where the Iraqi army ends and the Iranian-supported Shiite militias begin." Read more... Josh Rogin: "Just hours after Islamic State released a video purporting to show the brutal burning of a Jordanian pilot in its custody, Jordan's King Abdullah made the rounds on Capitol Hill, promising that Jordan would unify after the tragedy and pledging a swift response to the killing." Read more... COMPANIES Justin Fox: "It looks like the Federal Communications Commission is indeed going to head down the path of regulating broadband Internet service as a public utility, albeit probably not one subject to price controls and such. ... Assuming it does happen, I can tell you just what will take place after that." Read more... HEALTH @SMihm (Stephen Mihm): This isn't the first time that anti-vaxxers have crippled public health. At least it's not smallpox: Read more... NATIONAL The Editors: "Since the late 1990s, the number of working-age Americans receiving disability payments from Social Security has doubled, to more than 8 million. The mounting costs of the program, running at almost $150 billion a year, are about to exhaust the fund that supports it. Something will have to be done, and soon -- but what?" Read more... WALL STREET Matt Levine: "Here is a delightful story about a man, John 'Mac' McQuown, who invented a method of combining a bond with a credit default swap." Read more... POLITICS Francis Wilkinson: "If a new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll is any measure, few Republican activists are sufficiently concerned about inequality to abandon their support for low taxes on the wealthy. For now." Read more... Francis Barry: "The U.S. is the only developed country that doesn't guarantee paid maternity leave. President Barack Obama wants to change that, starting with federal employees. Yet the federal government already grants paid leave to tens of thousands of workers: those who it is trying to fire or discipline. And therein lies the potential for a compromise with Republicans." Read more... Albert R. Hunt: "Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who is suddenly a hot Republican presidential prospect, may be getting hotter. Though some consider Walker's lack of foreign policy credentials a hurdle to a nomination, he has earned praise from a prince of neoconservatives, Richard Perle." Read more... U.S. ECONOMY Megan McArdle: Here are some reasons that "30- and 40-ish professionals in places like New York City don't feel as rich as they ought."Read more... HEALTH-CARE REFORM Ramesh Ponnuru: "It's no secret that Republicans are divided both about how to replace Obamacare and about the urgency of coming up with an alternative plan. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has just escalated that internal debate -- and shown why his side should lose it." Read more... EUROPEAN ECONOMY Marc Champion: "It ought to be possible for euro-area members and Greece to strike a deal on the country's debt. Coming to agreement on deterring Russia's warmongering may prove harder -- though it's just as essential to peace and prosperity in Europe." Read more... AUSTRALIA William Pesek: "The Reserve Bank of Australia, that Asia-Pacific bastion of hard-money policies, has just joined a dozen other monetary powers in slashing rates as the risk of deflation deepens." Read more...