Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Sep 25,2009

Weaksauce

Shockingly, the Iranians have gone behind everyone’s back and built another nuclear reactor, the sole purpose of which seems to be to produce the necessary material for a nuclear weapon....

By AF Editors • Sep 24,2009

So can anyone actually do something about global warming?

The new issue of Foreign Affairs is hot off the presses. Its cover package includes three articles about global warming that are well worth reading. The focus here is entirely...

By Sonny Bunch • Sep 24,2009

Would the implosion of North Korea be that bad?

Noah Millman lists as one of the “bad things that haven’t happened yet” the implosion of North Korea: Maybe this isn’t exactly a “bad thing” since North Korea suffers under...

By Sonny Bunch • Sep 24,2009

Disappearing Colleges?

Ezra links to this Washington Monthly story by Kevin Carey asking if colleges will go the way of the newspaper: StraighterLine is the brainchild of a man named Burck Smith, an...

By AF Editors • Sep 22,2009

The old media are the new media

Terry Teachout revisits the late 1940s, when television was the new kid on the block and big radio was headed over a cliff like a corporate lemming: Everybody in America...

By AF Editors • Sep 21,2009

A live boy or a dead girl

Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards famously said “The only way I can lose is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.” Well, it looks...