Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Aug 16,2009

Three cheers for the mortgage interest deduction!

That may sound hopelessly wonky, but what it means is thousands of dollars off my tax bill, each and every year. I’m not kidding. My wife and I will be...

By AF Editors • Aug 16,2009

Twitter will vanquish every tyrant

Jon Last sharply questions the Twitter-euphoria generated by recent events in Tehran. In spite of rose-tinted predictions that historians would celebrate Twitter’s liberation of Iran and the beginning of a...

By AF Editors • Aug 16,2009

The incomprehensibility of Donald Rumsfeld

Last week, Christopher Caldwell reviewed Bradley Graham’s new book about Donald Rumsfeld. As soon as I have time to digest 800 pages of Graham’s prose, I’ll let you know what...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 14,2009

Sigh

For reasons I can’t quite describe, this story about people cutting back on spending (or to be more precise, what people aren’t cutting back on) infuriated me: “I’m not giving...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 13,2009

Woodstock Nostalgia

If I see one more self-indulgent baby-boomer “Hey, remember when we were awesome” piece about the 40th anniversary of Woodstock I’m blowing my brains out. Dear lord: When will these...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 13,2009

Would health care reform have saved Deamonte Driver’s life?

I’ve been wrestling with how to approach this post for two days because it’s a sensitive topic involving the death of a child and I feel uncomfortable demagoging when dead...