Commentary - America's Future

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,...

By AF Editors • Nov 02,2009

The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part I

The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal profiled John Paulson, whose firm made $15 billion by systematically betting against the value of American homes. Paulson himself took home $4...

By AF Editors • Nov 02,2009

A liberal dollop of irony

From the lead column in last week’s New Yorker: The market for news is narrowing down to people who need an ideological fix. Of course, that comment was directed at...