Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Jul 27,2009

Health care reform and kidney donation

I haven’t had much to say on the health care debate because, well, I haven’t given it a ton of thought. It seems to be self-evidently bad — impossible to...

By AF Editors • Jul 26,2009

Paying the piper (or just doctors and lawyers)

Matt Yglesias is frustrated with the nutty and dysfunctional nature of “fee-for-service” medicine in which doctors are paid for doing stuff rather than for treating illness. I feel the same...

By AF Editors • Jul 26,2009

I assure you, everything is just fine in the Middle East

Tom Friedman, Sunday morning: I can comfortably report the following: The bad guys are losing. Yes, the dominos you see falling in the Muslim world today are the extremist Islamist...

By AF Editors • Jul 26,2009

Healthcare: When a supermajority isn’t enough

Is Republican support necessary to pass a healthcare reform bill? The question came up Sunday morning on ABC: [GEORGE] STEPHANOPOULOS: So it’s not possible to have a Democrat-only bill. [SEN....

By AF Editors • Jul 26,2009

Worst. Movie. Ever.

How often do you see a review that begins like this? It’s hard to know where — and with whom — to begin when assessing the depraved, worthless piece of...

By AF Editors • Jul 26,2009

Why Maureen Dowd isn’t in jail (and a question for Dennis)

Maureen Dowd is a free woman because “Being obnoxious isn’t a crime.” That is the opening line of Dowd’s column from this morning. She intended her words as a defense...