Author: AF Editors

By Feb 06,2010

NATO shares battle plans with Taliban

In an old-fashioned war, you don’t tell the enemy where and when you’re going to attack. Counterinsurgency is different. The WaPo reports: For the upcoming Battle of Marja, the element...

By Feb 05,2010

Questions about Question Time

Nate Silver reviews the nuts and bolts of how Question Time for the President might actually work. If you think it makes sense (I do) then go sign the petition.

By Feb 04,2010

Give us Prime Minister Obama!

In a great follow on to President Obama’s engagement with the House GOP, a coalition of writers who span the political spectrum are calling for Question Time with the President...

By Feb 01,2010

Prime Minister Obama

There is a thread I’d like to pick up on in the commentary on President Obama’s civil debate with the House GOP last Friday. You can see it in the...

By Feb 01,2010

Game changed or rules broken?

Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, stole the spotlight by informing us that Harry Reid thought of Barack Obama as a “light-skinned”, um, “Negro”. That quote was quite...