Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Nov 09,2009

Justice, punishment and revenge

While I was in Savannah* my post on the death penaltykicked up a mild fuss. I thought it might — stridently worded missives calling for the implementation of government-authorized disembowelment...

By Sonny Bunch • Nov 04,2009

And on that cheery note…

…I’m out for the week. Headed down to Savannah for a wedding. If anyone has restaurant recommendations or bar recommendations, I’m all ears.

By Sonny Bunch • Nov 04,2009

Why I support the death penalty

From a New Yorker piece on America’s high murder rate: On July 23, 2007, authorities say, Hayes and Komisarjevsky broke into the Cheshire home of William Petit, Jr., an endocrinologist,...

By Sonny Bunch • Nov 04,2009

Fight! Fight! Fight!

Great story about fisticuffs in the Washington Post newsroom. It’s a few days old, and I’m only posting it now because of this excellent post on the combatants from Gene...

By AF Editors • Nov 02,2009

The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part III

I’m not an aggressive consumer of financial journalism, so it has to be something of a coincidence that I’ve come across three separate items that chronicle the dark predictions of...

By AF Editors • Nov 02,2009

The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part II

In the mid-1990’s, Yale economist Robert Shiller predicted the dot-com bubble would burst. In 2005, Shiller predicted the housing bubble would burst. Why? In the wake of the dot-com crash,...