Author: AF Editors
By • Nov 16,2009

Average Janes

Blame Edward Bok. When he acquired Ladies’ Home Journal in 1889, it was a modest little rag of household tips and advice to the lovelorn. Bok smartened things up by...

By • Nov 16,2009

The Rise of the Muckraking Right

Mike Flynn thought it was a crazy idea. When James O’Keefe, a 25-year-old, self-styled investigative journalist, first approached him last August about promoting a series of candid-camera style videos on...

By • Nov 16,2009

Open Source Democracy

If Barack Obama wants to save the government a few million dollars and spare himself a headache or two, he’d be wise to hire Jerry Brito. With the help of...

By • Nov 11,2009

A ham sandwich on Yom Kippur

“Having a ham sandwich on the afternoon of Yom Kippur doesn’t make you less Jewish,” Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet, chairman of the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue, said recently. I...