Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Jul 31,2009

Um, what’s our mission in Afghanistan?

Are we committed to nation-building, or are we just going to take out Al Qaeda? Here’s Obama announcing his new strategy in March: I want the American people to understand...

By AF Editors • Jul 31,2009

Michael Savage: Crunchy hippie liberal

What leads someone to become a fire-breathing right-wing talk show host? Answer: A Ph.D. from Berkeley in nutritional ethnomedicine. Seriously. The current issue of The New Yorker has a very...

By AF Editors • Jul 31,2009

Trial by television: NBC pursues Rwandan genocidaire

This week’s New Republic has a great feature on Leopold Munyakazi, a Rwandan exile and American college professor accused of initiating a mass murder during the genocide in 1994. NBC...

By Sonny Bunch • Jul 30,2009

Why would you want that?

I have to say, I don’t understand this complaint. After a WaPo reporter explains why the WaPo and other media outlets have written about the Birther nonsense while largely ignoring...

By Sonny Bunch • Jul 29,2009

Islam, Immigration, and Europe

Andrew’s post on the bombing of the Outgames in Denmark made me think of Christopher Caldwell’s excellent new book “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe.” Chris’s basic thesis is that...

By Sonny Bunch • Jul 28,2009

The Cocktail Renaissance

I have been remiss in failing to mention my friend and former colleague Robert Messenger’s excellent, longish piece on the rebirth of that classic American concoction, the cocktail. As with...