Author: AF Editors

Posted by the team at America's Future.
By AF Editors • Feb 27,2009

The Black Presidents Before Obama

Barack Obama was not the first African-American elected to the presidency. By my count, he was the seventh. It was just that he was the first nonfiction one. While pundits...

By AF Editors • Feb 26,2009

Sidestepping a New Malaise

Obama’s ongoing task is to honestly assess the place in which Americans find themselves, but he must do so in a way that does not boomerang on him, pulling the...

By AF Editors • Feb 20,2009

The Ladies With All the Answers

The women who have penned some of the most sought-out advice columns are experts in a kind of social history. Not only have they memorized (and written) tomes on etiquette,...

By AF Editors • Feb 20,2009

The European Sub-prime Mess

In October of last year, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück was clucking about the financial crisis being “America’s problem”. The spate of bank rescues orchestrated across Old Europe, which inconveniently...

By AF Editors • Feb 18,2009

Bailout Blues

With last week’s passage of a $787 billion stimulus package, for which the words “largest ever” don’t even seem to do justice, the defenders of the free market have gone...