Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Aug 12,2009

Howard Dean’s warning for Obama

Howard Dean on ABC This Week: If you’re not going to have a public option, don’t pretend you’re doing health care reform. Should Obama take this seriously, or will the...

By AF Editors • Aug 11,2009

A small island off the coast of Europe

I just got back from a very short trip to the UK to attend the wedding of an old classmate. One thing that struck me while I was there was...

By AF Editors • Aug 11,2009

Flying rabbis battle swine flu

A cost effective approach to health care: Dozens of rabbis and Kabbalah mystics armed with ceremonial trumpets took to the skies over Israel on Monday to battle the swine flu...

By AF Editors • Aug 11,2009

“Taliban Now Winning”

It was certainly quite a jolt to pick up my Wall Street Journal and see this big headline smack in the middle of Page One: Taliban Now Winning. The article...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 11,2009

Oh, I’m just an idiot!

(Yes, I expect to see that hed quoted out of context at some point in the future.) Over at Reason, the always-sensible Michael Moynihan points to Shepard Fairey’s reaction to...

By Elizabeth Nolan Brown • Aug 11,2009

What’s Your Story?: Joanna Robinson

“Shed your stress, not your clothes.” That’s the slogan for Lunar Massage, the studio opened by 28-year-old entrepreneur Joanna Robinson this past spring. Tucked into the first floor of a...