Commentary - America's Future

By David Donadio • Mar 03,2009

Engineering schematics for White House helicopters end up in Iran

Good to know this stuff is being kept under wraps by…well, by the same sorts of folks who keep losing laptops full of millions of Social Security numbers. Thankfully, this...

By Damir Marusic • Mar 02,2009

Mmmmm, warm cockles…

My black elitist heart positively lights up at the prospect of the marginalization of vulgar populism in the Republican party. Frum on Limbaugh: A man who is aggressive and bombastic,...

By AF Editors • Mar 02,2009

Keith Gessen’s New York: The Blog-Literary Complex

Is the New York literary scene dying? Is it in the midst of gasping its last erudite breath? It certainly wouldn’t be ridiculous to think so; the disappearance of bookstores,...

By David Polansky • Mar 02,2009

Steele vs. Limbaugh

NPR calls the Steele-Limbaugh tiff a battle for the future of the Republican party . In which case, I’m reminded of Henry Kissinger’s line on the Iran-Iraq war: Too bad...

By David Donadio • Mar 02,2009

Upside down in Afghanistan

Check out the latest twist in the Afghanistan war, as reported by The Australian. In a strategic inversion, it seems the Americans have become the foreign invaders and occupiers, and...

By David Adesnik • Mar 01,2009

Black US Presidents Before Obama

A brilliant study of ficitional black presidents by Sean Higgins, courtesy of Doublethink Online. If Eric Holder read this article before giving his “cowardice” speech, he might have saved himself...