The New Republic

- A series of studies out of the Urban Institute found that the Affordable Care Act will have generally positive effects on small businesses and their employees. - Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg explains the logic behind the graphic cigarette pack labels that the FDA introduced on Tuesday—here and here. READ MORE >>

These days, liberals don’t know whether to feel betrayed by or merely disappointed with Barack Obama. They have gone from decrying his willingness to remove the public option from his health care plan to worrying that, in the wake of Democrat Martha Coakley’s defeat in Massachusetts, he won’t get any plan through Congress. On other subjects, too, from Afghanistan to Wall Street, Obama has thoroughly let down his party’s left flank. READ MORE >>