The Atlantic’s Alana Semuels with a very interesting look at The Never-Ending Foreclosure: “Despite ever-sunnier economic conditions overall, the Great Recession is still rattling American families … How can the country survive the next economic crash if millions of families still haven’t recovered from the last one?” (Increasingly, DC’s answer to that question is: “We don’t care.”)

+ Sen. Chuck Grassley on the the Senate tax plan passed in the middle of the night (with handwritten notes still in the margin): “I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.” (I can’t figure out if he means that things like money and booze are bad, or just that they’re too expensive…)

+ Five social experiments buried in the Senate tax bill.