AF Editors - America's Future

By AF Editors • Jul 31,2009

Um, what’s our mission in Afghanistan?

Are we committed to nation-building, or are we just going to take out Al Qaeda? Here’s Obama announcing his new strategy in March: I want the American people to understand...

By AF Editors • Jul 31,2009

Michael Savage: Crunchy hippie liberal

What leads someone to become a fire-breathing right-wing talk show host? Answer: A Ph.D. from Berkeley in nutritional ethnomedicine. Seriously. The current issue of The New Yorker has a very...

By AF Editors • Jul 31,2009

Trial by television: NBC pursues Rwandan genocidaire

This week’s New Republic has a great feature on Leopold Munyakazi, a Rwandan exile and American college professor accused of initiating a mass murder during the genocide in 1994. NBC...

By AF Editors • Jul 26,2009

Paying the piper (or just doctors and lawyers)

Matt Yglesias is frustrated with the nutty and dysfunctional nature of “fee-for-service” medicine in which doctors are paid for doing stuff rather than for treating illness. I feel the same...

By AF Editors • Jul 26,2009

I assure you, everything is just fine in the Middle East

Tom Friedman, Sunday morning: I can comfortably report the following: The bad guys are losing. Yes, the dominos you see falling in the Muslim world today are the extremist Islamist...

By AF Editors • Jul 26,2009

Healthcare: When a supermajority isn’t enough

Is Republican support necessary to pass a healthcare reform bill? The question came up Sunday morning on ABC: [GEORGE] STEPHANOPOULOS: So it’s not possible to have a Democrat-only bill. [SEN....

Author: AF Editors

Um, what’s our mission in Afghanistan?

Michael Savage: Crunchy hippie liberal

Trial by television: NBC pursues Rwandan genocidaire

Paying the piper (or just doctors and lawyers)

I assure you, everything is just fine in the Middle East

Healthcare: When a supermajority isn’t enough