Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 17,2010

JFK, the History Channel, and what really matters

Interesting piece over at the New York Times documenting the efforts of Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism) to get the History Channel to put the kibosh on...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 17,2010

Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, and perfect worlds

Via the brilliant and fun-loving KMW comes this story in The Atlantic about Wal-Mart’s incursion into the world of Whole Foods-style organic and local food: In the grocery section of...

By AF Editors • Feb 17,2010

Has Pakistan turned against the Taliban?

Dan Twining, who studied Pakistan closely during his time at the State Department, takes a closer look at why Pakistan might have cooperated in the capture of Taliban #2, Mullah...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 17,2010

We Are the World redux

There’s a great piece by JVL in the latest issue of The Weekly Standard that gets to the heart of just why celebrity singalongs are oh-so-pointless: Between “We Are the...

By AF Editors • Feb 17,2010

Corporate Millions for Black Caucus

In a recent front-page story, the NY Times exposed how corporations have worked around campaign finance laws to send tens of millions of dollars to influential Democrats on the Hill:...

By AF Editors • Feb 17,2010

The Dalai Lama, democracy promoter

Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy, writes, Now that the White House has announced that President Obama will receive the Dalai Lama, it is important that he...