May 2009 - America's Future

By David Polansky • May 30,2009

The day the music, not died, but prostituted itself before a bunch of yammering yentas

Well, it was bad enough when the surviving members of the Grateful Dead broke with tradition and started shilling for presidential candidates, but it’s hard to imagine anything worse than...

By Sonny Bunch • May 30,2009

A little more on “parity”

For those who didn’t wade into the comments on that last post, we got into the numbers a little more. In the past ten years, if Mark is to be...

By Sonny Bunch • May 29,2009

“Parity” in soccer versus parity in American sports

An interesting discussion is going on over at the League, where Will laments the recent top-heaviness of European soccer. I make the point in the comments that this isn’t a...

By AF Editors • May 29,2009

The Hipster Health Care Revolution

Dr. Jay Parkinson might seem like your typical young Brooklynite–he’s on Twitter, voted for Obama, dabbles in photography, and attends the SXSW music festival. But he’s also heading up what...

By Roger Custer • May 27,2009

Issue No. 2009-2

By James Poulos • May 27,2009

The Sex Vote

These days, one is hard-pressed not to sound like an idiot when talking about sex and what Anthony Trollope called “The Way We Live Now”—especially if one wants to be...